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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!wa.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Possible bug in de driver? Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 21:04:07 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 22 Message-ID: <323DC0C7.304C@www.play-hookey.com> References: <nzzssJc@quack.kfu.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Nick Sayer wrote: > > If I pull the 10baseT cable out of my SMC 21040 based Ethernet card > for a little bit, the card will generate transmit timeouts and > pretty much lock up. Entering promiscuous mode briefly after the > link is restored cures the problem. The system is running > 2.2-960801-SNAP and is a P120-Triton. Well, perhaps the real answer > is "don't do that, then", but stull, it would be better if the > machine could figure it out on its own. > I have the same effect with an NE2100 clone (lnc0 on my system), but as soon as I restore the network it recovers and resumes operations with no interference. This is my gateway and webserver machine, running 2.1R with minor adjustments and recompiles. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |