Subject: Re: flow control
From: James McMorris (buddha@gci.net)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 15:40:56 AKDT
Same here on the MB replacement. The onboard 3c920 NICs in 2 out of 40
Dell GX240s from last November have died so far. Personally, I don't
consider that an acceptable ratio.
-Jim "Buddha" McMorris
----- Original Message -----
From: Jacob Gemmell <evilbob@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 11:24 am
Subject: Re: flow control
>
> It wouldn't be an Optiplex GX150 by any chance would it? I have
> had a
> similar problem with that model where I work on several different
> machines. I tried new drivers, flashing the BIOS and everything
> else I
> could think of. Finally, I had Dell ship me new motherboards for
> each of
> the machines and that fixed the problem. These were all Windows 2000
> machines BTW.
>
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Chris Hamilton wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:10:57 -0800
> > From: Chris Hamilton <chris@digitalalaska.com>
> > To: aklug@aklug.org
> > Subject: flow control
> >
> > Hi all, can anyone give me any insights into NIC flow control.
> Is there
> > any downside to disabling it on a NIC? I'm dealing with a 3com
> 3C920> that seems to be having connectivity troubles in an out of
> the box Dell
> > (loses network connectivity out of the blue). Sorry... but this
> isn't> for a linux box.
> >
> > Also any info on Poll rates might be useful too.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Chris.
> >
> >
> >
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