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From: narten@purdue.edu (Thomas Narten)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: de0: buffer unavailable
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Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 11:33:26 EDT
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The message means that a burst of packets was recieved faster than the
cpu can process them. The device driver makes a small number of
buffers available to the DEUNA. A burst of packets may use them all up
if the cpu cannot process packets fast enough.

You could try raising the number of buffers the DEUNA has to play
with, but it probably won't help. Look for the constants NXMT and NRCV.

Most likely, your problems are caused by broadcast storms and other
such bogus packet bursts. That is the problem you really need to
tackle.

Thomas