but they were stable! >>> "Steven A. Ridder" 01/25/02 11:13AM >>> I meant 3c905b's are nice. I think the 509's are old ISA cards. ""Steven A. Ridder"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Those DELL's with the 3com nic's have so many problems! There's a thread > over in comp.dcom.sys.cisco with someone else having problems with the same > PC's and NIC's. > > Usually the 3c509's are OK. I remember the 3C509B's as being rock-solid. > How fast are the PC's booting to beat portfast? Or are the NIC's some sort > of boot on lan client, where the NIC get's taken over before the OS even > loads. Maybe someone can disable the wake on lan feature if those DELL's > have it, because otherwise I can't imagine a NIC caring about network > connectivity before the OS kernel wakes up and takes over the NIC anyways. > > > ""John Neiberger"" wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Well, sort of resolved. This turned out to be a known issue with Dell > > machines, specifically machines using a 3COM 3C905C NIC. They expect > > the network to be available almost immediately upon bootup and can't > > handle the delay caused by spanning tree. In some cases, even portfast > > did not reduce the time sufficiently. > > > > So, watch out for those 3COM NICs! > > > > John
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