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Subject: Re: Network Instability when upgrading to 4GB of RAM
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All,
As a follow up to myself I installed an Intel PCIe NIC and disabled the on
board RTL based one and all my problems went away.  Been running with 4GB
installed for a couple days now with absolutely no network issues. So seems
like there's some problem with RTL NICs and >= 4GB of RAM.
-- 
Paul Haddad (paul.haddad@gmail.com paul@pth.com)