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[ILUG] Re: NICs and Gateways/Routers.

[ILUG] Re: NICs and Gateways/Routers.

John P. Looney john at antefacto.com
Tue May 22 09:21:09 IST 2001


On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:32:55PM +0100, Colin Whittaker mentioned:
> Ricardo Letosa stated the following on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:18:06PM +0100 :
> >     Also, the box is talking to 2 dual hubs. Would it be ok to force
> > 100mbit/s and full-duplex?
> The 100mbit/s is fine if the hubs are dual speed, but you can only do
> full-duplex if the NIC's are connected to ports on a switch.
> Also I've never had problems with Intel ether express cards.

 We have had many - and exactly those problems.

 Get the intel driver from their website - that'll fix the problem (at
least it did on three different machines here, and at a customer site).

Kate

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