This is probably not directly security related and might be off-topic - but today I discovered a strenge kernel message in /var/log/messages of our central file server running SuSE Linux 6.2: Mar 10 12:01:23 xxx kernel: eth0: Something Wicked happened! 000a. There have been logged several such messages (000a as well as 0009, 000b) during the last days. It's a 10/100 NIC running with the via-rhine module: Feb 27 17:03:19 xxx kernel: eth0: VIA VT3043 Rhine at 0xb800, 00:40:05:a5:2f:54, IRQ 10. Feb 27 17:03:19 xxx kernel: eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 05e1 Link 40a1. I'm a little worried now (maybe I'm just paranoid ;-)) - can someone of you tell me what this message means? Thanks in advance, Jan Hildebrandt -- jan.hildebrandt@mathema.de MATHEMA Software GmbH (http://www.mathema.de) Nägelsbachstraße 25a D-91052 Erlangen, Germany Tel: (+49)9131/8903-0 Fax: (+49)9131/8903-55