I've seen it with a 905B. A former roomate of mine had one in his machine and one day, it started acting up. Eventually it got to the point that if he even sent a packet through it, it would panic his kernel. It was silly as hell. IIRC, the card had to be replaced. Gabe On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:39:58AM -0600, Yaron wrote: > Hi, > > Kinda off topic, but has anyone had this happen to them before? > > I've got a 3com 3c905-TC NIC. Used to work fine, now it apparently is > dropping about 25% of all packets. Movied it to another machine and it > does the sam there. All the other NICs are 3coms, most of them also 905's > (though various models). > > One reason I think it might NOT be the NIC is I've done some TCPDUMPs, and > when you're pinging other machines they send out arp requests for this > card every 10 seconds or so. Pinging from other nics doesn't do that. > > Anyone have any ideas before I go get a new 3com? > > > -Yaron > > -- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "Leave everything to me!!" - Powdered Toast Man in "Powdered Toast Man" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------