Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Ethernet card problems
From: Albert Max Lai (amlai@columbia.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 01 1999 - 15:57:19 EST
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Jason Tuomy wrote:
> This has happened twice now so I would like to share this experience. I
> now have a file server running netatalk+asun and an Oracle server. At
> first both boxes came with Intel Pro/100 cards. Everything seemed fine
The Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 driver (eepro100) is slightly broken. It
has problems with multicasting. So, to fix this, you have to insert this
line into your /etc/conf.modules:
options eepro100 multicast_filter_limit=3
If there is anyone maintaining some sort of a FAQ, this should probably be
in there.
> until I ran the netatalk rpm and rebooted. All of a sudden I would get
> a large amount of collisions and packet losses and my Mac's would start
> to drop their connections or just freeze up. I'm not a hacker or
> anything, so I tried a little different approach. The first time I
> thought it was just a bad NIC card, because when I replaced the Intel
> card with a 3Com Fast Etherlink 10/100 (3c905b-tx) everything was
> fixed. But when it happened the second time, I replaced only the card
> and it worked just fine again. Just thought people might be
> interested. Good work asun on 2.1.3. Works like a charm for us.
>
-- Albert Lai <amlai@columbia.edu> 1018D East Campus Residential Computer Consultant 411 W. 116th St. Columbia University New York, NY 10027 http://www.columbia.edu/~aml61 (212)853-4854
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