On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 11:42:07 UTC, "William L. Hartzell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sir: > We tried some replacement stacks, but for a short time there I thought > it was fixed. Alas, I recently attempted to download Java toolkit Sep > release and never could get the java jitc_g.dll to download without a > bad crc. Since this stack is on two machines, which I must update in > tandem, I am not sure which machine has the problem. One machine is my > router/firewall box and the other is my main machine. Since my main > snip ... I am beginning to think NIC or associated driver. When I first installed highspeed cable I added a Linksys NIC hooked into the cable modem. I then inserted a Netgear RT314 Gateway Router which is essentially a blackbox router/NAT machine. A side effect was that the Linksys NIC was now running at 100mb vs. the 10mb the autodetect routine had previously chosen for the direct cable connection. All hell broke loose (in subtle ways) & I was only able to restore order by manually changing AUTODETECT to 10mb HALF DUPLEX in the MPTS config thingy. By pushing the NIC beyond 10 mb I had crossed some threshold in the driver, killing my data integrity. It ran perfectly for a year at 10mb when I replaced with a new INTEL NIC so I could run my internal lan at 100mb. Sounds like you have several NICs in your data path. My thinking is that the newer stack, being faster, has moved you beyond the integrity threshold. good luck... eric
