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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Dan Nelson wrote:

> I've noticed that when I run 3Com's DOS config program that the card
> reports 5K of receive buffers and 3K of send buffers.  Is this really
> all there is on the card?  If so, I can understand the NFS problem, but
> I can't believe a 100mbit card woud have such small buffers.

A followup to this.

I went twiddling around in the 3c90x config program.  The option 'Network
Driver Optimization' has a direct bearing on this.  I set it from .. I
think 'better performance' to 'normal' and the bad packets disappeared.

FYI.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major