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Article #48Re: NW41 & 3C905 problem
From: Jim Willeke
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00
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Daniel G. Rockwell wrote: > > Implemented our new Pentium server using the 3Com's FastEtherlink XL adapter > (3C905-TX). Worked great in a test environment. Put it in production over > the weekend & all was well. However after our 300+ users started hammering it > the server stopped communicating to the network by lunchtime this past Monday. > The server was fine, I could toggle to any of it's console screens, just no > communications. Monitor showed me the ECB count was rising steadily. > Restarted server & experienced the same problem in 5 min., however none of the > monitor stats for the adapter was changing. Had to drop back to our old > server for production purposes. > > Anyone else using this adapter in an NW4.1 environment? I'd be interesting in > hearing your experiences to help me sort this out. Currently runing latest > NLM's found in LANDR9 & latest drivers from 3COM. > > TIA, > Dan Rockwell Yea, we are running the same card on a heavily used 4.1 server patched to 410pt6 with no problems. Been running 50 some days in this configuration and we have more than one server like this. -jim
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