This has happened a couple of times to me, but it was due to bad network cards,
creating the broadcast storm. Caused a lot of problems, no one could do
anything, locked up everyone's computer that was in that subnet. We replaced the
nic and everything goes back to normal.

Jake


On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Dan Horth wrote:

--not to do with embedded NICs but we have had problems with our 
--eepro100 cards in our file servers and netatalk which involved the 
--server freezing (and workstations connected to it) as the eepro100 
--flooded the network with... uhm... network activity - sorry - hapened 
--ages ago and really busy here so I can't be much more helpful at this 
--stage - except to say that I have added:
--
--options eepro100 multicast_filter_limit=3
--
--to /etc/conf.modules as advised on the netatalk list and that fixed 
--our lock-up problems... I think there is documentation about this on 
--donald becker's site.
--
--HTH - dan.
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--At 4:56 PM -0400 28/7/00, Kevin Wood wrote:
-->Has anyone else been having problems with the Intel eepro100 embedded
-->NICs?  I have a few customers that have been complaining of drop-outs
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