Re: flow control


Subject: Re: flow control
From: Jon Reynolds (jonr@destar.net)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 18:33:24 AKDT


I have had similiar problems with NICs dropping connections and found
tthat it was the power managment that was causing it, you might look at
disabling it in the bios and in windows to see if it still drops.

Jon

On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 11:24, Jacob Gemmell wrote:
>
> 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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