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From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@webspan.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Possible bug in de driver?
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 09:00:53 -0400
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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.

The driver in 2.2 until a day or two ago (and definately in
960801-SNAP is known to have problems. Try grabbing the sources from
the latest -current stuff and try those.

Gary