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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hello all. I am new to this group and not much of a Linux expert. That being said, I could really use some expert advise on a gig network card problem. This is a Dell 6450 running Red Hat 7.2, 2.4.7-10smp kernel. I installed a 3Com 3C996B-T gig nic and the driver is bcm 5700 I think. The nic seems to run fine until it gets hit really hard with lots of traffic. Then it locks up and gives the following errors:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jul 31 11:41:30 blade kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jul 31 11:41:30 blade kernel: eth1: Tx hung</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I can either stop and restart the network or reboot the server and it will work for maybe a day, or maybe 10 minutes.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I want the easiest quickest fix, and if that means buying a different brand nic that would be fine. Thanks in advance for your help.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">JB</FONT>
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