On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Josh Fisher wrote: > I ran into this with a couple of Vista laptops, and also with a > nForce430 chipset XP machine. I have found it is not uncommon for > Windows NIC drivers to be buggy.
Not just Windows. We found that 3com Torando/Vortex/Boomerang family cards will start barfing all over the network(*) under high loads under Linux (especially on older(**) boxes with high NFS traffic) This also happened (but nowhere near as badly) with cheap and nasty 1Gb/s NE2k NICs (realtek R8193) I dropped in as replacements. (*) Not jabbering, but traffic from the NIC starts appearing on all network ports, somehow becoming unswitchable. This appears to be a Linux networking stack issue. (**) P3-600-1Ghz and early P4s ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
