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From: Frank Yang <fyang@leland.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Intel EtherExpress 16 network unstable
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 22:56:05 -0700
Organization: Stanford University
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Hi,

I recently upgraded my computer from 486 to Pentium.  The Intel
EtherExpress 16 network card used to work fine on the 486/FreeBSD
machine.  However, the networking became very unstable with the
Pentium+FreeBSD configuration.  I can telnet, etc. but I kept getting
unpredicable device timeout messages.  When there are
too many timeouts, the card will stop functioning, and when I try to
ping an address, I get error messages like "sendto: no more buffer"...

The only way I can get the card working again (without shutting down
the computer) is to bring the device down and then up with "ifconfig"
program.

Does anyone else have simular problem?  Any one know how to fix it?

Thanks!

Frank Yang