26 Feb
2004
26 Feb
'04
3:17 a.m.
Oh, okay, never read the faq before, this was learning out of experience
many many years ago at 2am in the morning at a client site with the IT
manager breathing over my shoulder because a server was down and needed its
NIC's replaced....
Ah.... the good old days ;-)
Curt
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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and
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February 25, 2004 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: Here's a weird one (kinda OT)
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Curt Vendel wrote:
Festival
The TPO's were 3COM 509's (bad children)
I had many issues with those
adapters, I especially had issues with them playing well with others.
On a few installs of Novell and Win NT servers, when 2 or more of these
were in the servers I found that they had to be installed one at a time
and configured one at a time then they could all be installed and
tested... However have a 509b-TPO and another nic like SMC or Intel
and talk about seeing a piece of h/w throw a tantrum.
This is actually somewhat addressed in the 509 FAQ on 3Com's website, and
their solution is as you describe (plug in one and install, then plug in
the other and repeat).
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