I've seen it with a 905B.  A former roomate of mine had one in his machine
and one day, it started acting up.  Eventually it got to the point that if
he even sent a packet through it, it would panic his kernel.  It was silly
as hell.  IIRC, the card had to be replaced.

Gabe

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:39:58AM -0600, Yaron wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> Kinda off topic, but has anyone had this happen to them before?
> 
> I've got a 3com 3c905-TC NIC. Used to work fine, now it apparently is
> dropping about 25% of all packets. Movied it to another machine and it
> does the sam there. All the other NICs are 3coms, most of them also 905's
> (though various models). 
> 
> One reason I think it might NOT be the NIC is I've done some TCPDUMPs, and
> when you're pinging other machines they send out arp requests for this
> card every 10 seconds or so. Pinging from other nics doesn't do that.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas before I go get a new 3com?
> 
> 
> -Yaron
> 
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