3c905B Problems

[Donald Becker]

On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Roberto P.Martins Jr. wrote:

> I'm having problems with a 3Com 3c905B (Cyclone).
> The NIC was inserted in a heavy loaded server and on the busiest hours it
> freezes sometimes, leaving the server off-line. I log at console and everything
> seems to be OK, but no one can ping me and I can't ping either.
> 
> After an ifconfig, I noticed a lot of overruns. I tried to use 3c59x and 3c90x
> (from 3Com) modules without success.

That indicates that your problem is with the driver, but with your hardware.
Fix the overrun problem, and your network problems will likely go away.

> We bought 3Com NICs only because of quality but with this problem
> I'll probably have to use another NIC...

It's great having an alternate driver, for situations like this.  There is
very little chance that two unrelated drivers both have the same bug.

Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, and
USRA-CESDIS,   becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov