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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Possible bug in de driver?
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 21:04:07 +0000
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Nick Sayer wrote:
> 
> If I pull the 10baseT cable out of my SMC 21040 based Ethernet card
> for a little bit, the card will generate transmit timeouts and
> pretty much lock up. Entering promiscuous mode briefly after the
> link is restored cures the problem. The system is running
> 2.2-960801-SNAP and is a P120-Triton. Well, perhaps the real answer
> is "don't do that, then", but stull, it would be better if the
> machine could figure it out on its own.
> 

I have the same effect with an NE2100 clone (lnc0 on my system), but as
soon as I restore the network it recovers and resumes operations with no
interference. This is my gateway and webserver machine, running 2.1R
with minor adjustments and recompiles.
-- 

Ken

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