Re: sis900: eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping

[Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:13:58AM +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

> I can make one of my machines, which has an on-board sis900 NIC, lose
> network connectivity within seconds by doing something like
> "nc -l -p 6666 > /dev/null" and then blasting some data towards it.  When
> this happens, syslog fills up with these messages:
> 
>       eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping

Just before it starts spewing these it says:

        eth0: Memory squeeze,deferring packet.

So apparently it just doesn't deal with OOM very well.


--L