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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: John Reddy <jreddy@lightning.net>
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Subject: Re: 3Com 3C509 - packet dropping
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, John Reddy wrote:

> I've got a 3Com 3C509 server NIC that every now and then will simply stop 
...
> xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped!
> xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped!


  3COM 509 + xl is notoriously troublesome.  Use an Intel card (fxp
driver) instead.

Tom



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