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The 3COM 3C509 cards are fast for workstations but are generally not
recommended for use in Netware servers.  The speed of the card is derived
from the fact that is constantly interrupts the CPU and does virtually 
no onboard processing of data packets.  This tends to upset Netware 
servers that like nice orderly incoming data.  Novell have a few articles
in NSEPRO stating VERY VERY specific revisions of the 3C509 card drivers
to be used in Netware servers.  You may be better off with another card
(NE2000, SMC, etc.)  that is supposedly slower but moree suited to
use in servers.


In article <3u3ia9$a2v@shade.ehnr.state.nc.us>, Don.Gillaspie@deh.ehnr.state.nc.us (Don Gillaspie) says:
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>Have you loaded the latest drivers?
>ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/adapters/drivers/3c59xx.exe
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>In article <3u037m$o7p@mozart.telegate.se>,
>   Berndt Hybner <bhybner@kdt.se> wrote:
>>We are installing a new P100 server with 3.12 and are experiencing a
>>weird problems not seen before here. The server has two lan card
>>(PCI, 3Com 3C590, rev. C). Directly when the server is ready, we notice
>>that the "Receive packet overflow" in the monitor (under Lan Information)
>>is increasing fast. If we try to copy some files from another server to this
>>one it takes at least 10 times as longer as if we plug in 3C509, ISA-cards
>>instead (and the overflow count are increasing faster during the copy).
>>With the ISA-card, there is no problem at all with the overflow count, it
>>stays at 0.
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>>We have tried to change the maximum physical packet size in STARTUP.NCF
>>from the default 4042 to 2048 and 512, as well as some other "SET"-settings
>>but with almost no differance. Obviously, some setting releated to the PCI
>>is causing this - but what ?
>>
>>The server have 32 MB RAM and a 2.1 Gb HD.
>>
>>Somebody told us 3C590 only supports frametype 802.2. Can this really be
>>true ? (We are using 3Com driver from 950618)
>>
>>Best regards
>>Berndt
>>
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