Re: Network card recommendation

["Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller@amfes.com>]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>  
>
> > My firewall is continuing to run reliably - of course.  I have noticed 
> > that on of the 3com NICs, I have a single RX overrun reported.  Just one 
> > - no errors, and no increases in the overrun number.
> >    
>
> Which 3com model exactly? (lspci output, please).
>  
0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M 
[Tornado] (rev 74)
0000:00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M 
[Tornado] (rev 74)
and - you didn't ask - Debian pre-compiled kernel 2.6.12-1-686

> That said, once-every-year errors like these are not worth bothering with.
> Maybe something stalled your kernel and the buffer overloaded for that
> packet.
>  
It's curious - cuz it only happens during boot, and just the one overrun.


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Daniel