Re: eth0: NULL pointer encountered in RX ring, skipping

From: Andrea Ferraris (andrea_ferraris@libero.it)
Date: Sat Jan 26 2002 - 05:11:50 EST


Friday 25 January 2002 23:59, Jeff Garzik scrisse:
> Well, the code says "this should never happen" ;-)
>
> But anyway, it is probably a temporary memory allocation failure. The
> code handles this case.

Yes, but I think that isn't normal to have to do a cold reboot to have the
machine again working on the network. It is, maybe that the code doesn't
handle so well this case. Do you suggest a kernel upgrade?

Andrea
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