| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 21 Aug 2000 at 14:04:00 |
| Subject: | Re: PCI BUS BOARD |
hi,
> Argh. If I have one more 3com spontaneously forget its ethernet address,
> decide that despite being an EISA card in an EISA slot it really wants to
> try to map itself into PCI address space or an autosensing hub suddenly
> disable all 100mbit connections without anyone having gone near it, I will
> go and kill people. 3com? 3 times higher in price than it deserves to be,
> more like.
how did it - and not the OS - forget its IP address?
as for auto-sensing/negotiation - which Network solutions company has told
you that it works and is reliable? even Cisco stuff doesnt get it right - or
perhaps it really is the 3com cards themselves arsing up.. hmm - must buy
new kit 8-)
alan
Quote carefully and read all ADMIN:README mails