Just to add to the converastion; I have always found that 3COM NIC's have
worked flawlessly for me.

On 8/29/06, YvesDM <ydmlog at gmail dot com> wrote:
>
> On 8/28/06, Andrew Kemp <akemp at iquest dot net> wrote:
> > the entire box freezes, snmp stops responding, i monitor the box from
> > the outside world with cacti via pings and the graphs show that the ip
> > was unpingable for the duration of the outage until a reboot. i also
> > console in and the keyboard is unresponsive.
> >
>
> Yes, I experienced exactly the same with onboard (fxp) intel cards.
> I even had a box with keyboard and monitor directly attached to it
> when it crashed.
> It was totally inresponsive in every way. I solved the problem by
> changing the onboard intel nic with a cheap realtek 8139d nic and
> didn't use the onboard nic anymore. All nics in the box are realtek
> 8139d's now.
> For the moment the uptime of that box is 56 days, so I guess it's ok :-)
>
> Best Regards, Yves
>
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