Re: [e-smith-devinfo] I need some diagnostic help

[Gordon Rowell]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:05:57AM +1100, Jon Pamment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for all the ideas. We will go through them this morning. Were going
> to try new nic's first up, along with checking the bios settings.
> [...]

I would strongly advise using top quality name brand NICs for any server.

Some generic NICs do lock up under load - they load fine and seem o.k. for
a while, but then lock up when performing a lot of concurrent requests.

Gordon
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