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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!cupnews0.cup.hp.com!news1.boi.hp.com!randyb
  3. From: randyb@boi.hp.com (randy barbour)
  4. Subject: This LAN is not you LAN !!!
  5. Sender: news@boi.hp.com (News Server Project)
  6. Message-ID: <BzMvLJ.Lqr@boi.hp.com>
  7. Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:51:18 GMT
  8. Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
  9. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]
  10. Lines: 16
  11.  
  12.  The following message has been received periodically,but steadily, on 
  13. Sun Sparc 2 workstations connected on a thinlan network. A thinMAU box 
  14. is used to interface thinlan network via the AUI port. The message is
  15. not received on HP workstations on the same network.
  16.  
  17. le0: Receive: giant packet for ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
  18. le0: Receive: STP in rmd cleared
  19.  
  20. Question: Does anyone know how to interpret this message or why the Suns
  21.           are sensitive to it? Networking seems to work fine other
  22.           than these console messages ! 
  23.  
  24.                                         Thank you
  25.                                     
  26.                                         Randy Barbour
  27.                                         randyb@boi.hp.com
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