Aryeh Friedman wrote: >> Has it recurred under 8-? > > Yes... but as I said I have had no error messages just random dropouts > and then reconnects after about 15 secs > > >> Can you 'make' it happen again? > > On demand no but everyday use yes. and off-list said: Aryeh Friedman wrote: >> Ok - here's what may be a slightly earlier rev on a Gigabyte GA G33-DS3R: > > For once you won't be accusing me of seeing ghosts ;-) It isn't about 'ghosts'. Its about thorough troubleshooting and reporting of the available facts vs the dollar under the tin-bin side-trips. The NIC and drivers are only a small part of the network environment. Long ago and far away, ethernet ran out of hard-coded MAC ID's (shorter at the time), so we assigned them by manual over-ride. As with setting up duplicate IP's inadvertantly, you can guess that there were problems. Recently I've run into Pegasus II chipset USB ethernet adapters with ... duplicate factory-assigned MAC addresses. Something I hadn't expected to need to watch for in over a decade. And only a problem if they show up on the same LAN, but - go figure - we had it happen on a 192 - internal subnet with just four machines, so... Then there are ARP caches not cleared fast enough when you migrate IP's, faulty routers, hubs, cables, shit-storms on the channel from *other* boxen that block your packets...and so on... None of which driver coders can do SQRT of FA about... Let's find out what we actually have here... 'More facts, please'.... BillReceived on Sun Nov 11 2007 - 19:57:09 UTC
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