[ale] DHCP strangeness

[Carl Forsell]

I was using cards with the ngmc chipset...


-----Original Message-----
From: David Dagon <dagon at cc.gatech.edu>
To: ale at ale.org
To: Carl Forsell <cforsell at roman.net>
Date: Thursday, August 17, 2000 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] DHCP strangeness


>On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:24:50AM -0400, Carl Forsell wrote:
>> In my former life, as a Novell admin, I used Netgear FA310TX  nic's for a
>> while, and was very unhappy with them.  Lots of "weird" problems that I,
at
>> first, thought were coming from users screwing around all went away when
I
>> swapped out thos nics.  If I were you, I would replace the nic and see if
>> problems go away.  The obvious is sometimes the hardest to see....
>>
>
>May I ask: was your bad experience with the NetGear FA310TX Rev D1,
>with the DEC chipset, or the NetGear FA310TX with the NGMC chipset, or
>an even earlier version?  from the Rev D1 forward, the FA310TX have
>proven reliable.  (Though getting drivers in FreeBSD for the NGMC
>marked chips was not always possible.)
>
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