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Re: 3com Bommerang netcard

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James H. Cloos Jr.)
Wed Nov 20 13:37:31 1996

Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 11:07:04 -0600
From: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961120132020.15165Q-100000@tolle.uni-c.dk>
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>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Tolle <Lars.Tolle@uni-c.dk> writes:

Lars> I am running RH4.0 on 2 100Mhz Pentium machines these have the
Lars> new 3COM bommerang netcard (3c900 series).

Lars> But now both of the machines is randomly loosing the connections
Lars> to the network.

We had the same problem.  I fixed it by changing to Digital's DE-500
cards.  These have worked flawlessly for us, at both 10bT and 100bT.
They also successfully switch modes if you hot swap the otehr side of
the wire between 10bT and 100bT ports.

-JimC
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