eth0: mismatched read page pointers 4c vs ff
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The situation
I still have an old 486SX25 system which I use to run multiple ssh sessions to different other systems. For instance to use IRC or view email. This way I can keep track of those things when doing things in fullscreen on my main desktop. The system started showing the following error on every virtual console:
eth0: mismatched read page pointers 4c vs ff
After a time I saw the connections to other systems fail.