From: M Graham Dineley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: LPRng: Lprng, filtering, performance. !!! 3C905 BUG !!! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 29 Jun 0 16:35:33 BST Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from "TheBong Pipe" at Jun 29, 100 6:57 am Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Hi TheBong, > good? Could it be a linux networking problem (the server has two 3com 905 > NICs, one speaking Appletalk, one TCP/IP)? > Do you know about the 3COM Linux driver bug on 3C905s? I look after a Linux network that suffered from all sorts of wierd behaviour, truncated NFS files and hanging print queues. It turns out that there is a bug in the 3C905 drivers from 3COM that can cause the card to hang for up to 2 minutes; it is incorprated in most Linux distributions ;-(. There is a patch that works called 3c90x-1.0.0i.tar that I think I got from 3COM site, but it only works with certain kernals. This patch restored a lot of sanity to my network. If you want further details I think I can dig them out. Regards. G. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
