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Re: Ethernet bug in 4.0.5F indigos

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From: Guy Brooker
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:39
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In article <tnj3980@zuni.esd.sgi.com>, dwong@sgi.com (David Wong) writes:
 > In article <BzEs7E.CJ1@wm.estec.esa.nl> guy@wmsg02.wm.estec.esa.nl (Guy Brooker) writes:
 > 
 > the errata is for people running 4DDN such that the interface won't
 > switch to promiscuous mode.
 > 
 > >
 > >I have had some problems with my ethernet since the new installation, and since
 > >changing to above they seem so far to have gone completely...
 > 
 > what sort of problem ?
 > 

My machine occasionly lost contact with the NFS server, sometimes breifly, sometimes over extended periods, and allways with the News server breifly as information is requested. 

Since making the two changes I mentioned, I have not seen these problems.

I was running 4DDN, but have switched it off scince 4.0.5F. 

Guy

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From: guy@wmsg02.wm.estec.esa.nl (Guy Brooker)
Subject: Re: Ethernet bug in 4.0.5F indigos
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