Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:17:54 +0000 From: john@mailhost.cas.unt.edu To: David Hawkins <dhawk@river.org> Cc: lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org, john@mailhost.cas.unt.edu, skafte@worldgate.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3com 3C509B Combo card Message-ID: <199801161517.JAA11908@www.cas.unt.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801152043.MAA15528@ohio.river.org> References: <199801150558.XAA04566@detlev.UUCP> from Joel Ray Holveck at "Jan 14, 98 11:58:00 pm"
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> The River's been running a 509B for two years. A couple of things: > 1. turn off PlugNPlay > 2. don't use a transceiver > > Our colocation service moved the machine recently and put in a > transceiver. The network connection became unreliable. Once I > took off the transceiver all was well. (Someone else figured out the > problem.) If you have a transceiver hooked to a hub you need to turn off SQE (heartbeat)--otherwise this will generate collisions--see http://www.ots.utexas.edu:8080/ethernet/enet-faqs/ethernet-faq search for 05.02Q or 802.3 repeater -------------------------------------------------- John A. Booth University of North Texas College of Arts & Sciences Computer Support Specialist GW address: CAS.PO7.JOHN Internet: john@unt.edu Office: 940-565-4498
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