Hi!! I am running a Pentium 4 machine 2.53 Ghz machine with 1Ghz RAM. Kernel is 2.4.18. I am running it in Polling mode. The problem is i am having some occasional packet loss due to receive overruns as shown by e1000 statistics at the packet rate above 10000 (64 bytes) ... Can any one please help me why i am getting this error?? The pci settings for the NIC is ..the machine has anpther onboard NIC. 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82544GC Gigabit Ethernet Controller (re v 02) Subsystem: Intel Corp. PRO/1000 T Desktop Adapter Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 252, IRQ 11 Memory at ff8e0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Memory at ff8c0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] I/O ports at dc00 [size=32] Expansion ROM at ff8a0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [e4] PCI-X non-bridge device. Capabilities: [f0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable - 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1039 (rev 81) Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 300e Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 Memory at ff89f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] I/O ports at d880 [size=64] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 --More-- Shilpi Agarwal Graduate Student Dept of Electrical Engineering University of Wisconsin Madison-53706 phone:608-233-3714 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html