> no, these packets arent being queued...they are being dumped before being > queued (why would you queue a packet that you know is bad?). Thats the issue. These frames have what - framing errors and bad crc ? > So, are you saying that there is no way to explicity free memory for > immediate use? The issue with the eepro driver is that it doesnt recover > even when the traffic subsides, which has nothing to do with the fact that > there is no memory available to fill the buffers in the first place. I still dont think main memory is related to the current eepro100 problems at all - lack of it or otherwise. If you fired invalid frames at it then Im convinced it doesnt. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org