> Interesting. There are several identical reports for the 3com drivers.
> The so-called "sleepy NIC" problem, where a NIC which is completely idle
> for 20-30 minutes loses its ability to receive.
Several switches dont flood fill on unknown destination they just drop the
frame and 'know' that boxes are noisy enough to avoid problems [hah]. We had
endless problems with old 3com bridges that looked just like the above.
Alan
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