[ale] Another question

[Larry Gee]

I had the very same problem until I applied ALL of the update rpms.  I
also found that the appletalk stuff really screwed with my network until
I replaced my Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 with a "tulip" based card
(SMC in my case).  Maybe you are having some of the same fits, however,
a quick scan of the netatalk list doesn't show any real problems with
3com cards.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Daniel Boyd [SMTP:dboyd at berry.edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 01, 1998 10:57 AM
> To:	ale at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject:	[ale] Another question
> 
> Hello ALE,
> WARNING!! This is long....
> Have recently attempted to install a new web server on campus here.  
> It is a Pentium Pro 180 w/128MB RAM, four 4gig SCSI drives (two 
> initially setup in a RAID1 array, now abandoned), 3Com 3c590 PCI NIC, 
> RedHat 5.0 clean install (no updates loaded yet), Apache 1.2.5 
> compiled from source, SAMBA 1.9.18p3 (compiled from source), Netatalk 
> 1.4 (compiled from source), kernel 2.0.33 w/RAID145 patches and md 
> compiled into the kernel.  I have since removed the md driver from 
> the kernel, but have not removed the RAID145 patch from the source.  
> The mystery is this:  When I first boot the box networking is fine, 
> but after a ?random? amount of time all network (except Netatalk, 
> strangely) simply dies.  The box can't see the attached network and 
> nothing can see the box (no telnet, no web access, no ping response). 
> Any ideas?  I will be glad to give more info if needed...
> 
> Dan
>  
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