At 21:26 20/06/2001 +0200, Paul Huygen wrote:
MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net> wrote: > so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb > RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only, > but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible > to make it be a masquerading router. it's probably going to fail, but > i want to try anyway. There is no reason for it to fail.
Alas there is - the network card. In a school installation of approximately 300 (admittedly Win9x) workstations with cheapo network cards, about 1 a day fails. Rebooting doesn't work, so it doesn't seem to be driver related. I even observed this at home. The solution seems to be taking the card out and putting it back in. On the other hand,
I don't understand it. On the positive side, those machines with named ( in this case SMC or 3Com) cards never fail.
Nik