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Date:      Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:03:16 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net>
Cc:        isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Computer disappears from the network, then reappears...? 
Message-ID:  <199606110003.RAA18418@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jun 1996 00:25:04 MDT." <199606100625.AAA11065@terra.aros.net> 

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>Lo and behold, David Greenman once said:
>
>>    There aren't any known bugs in the driver, but the 82557 chip (the NIC) has
>> a bug that causes it to "go away" when it sees any garbage data. There is a
>> "work around" that basically amounts to resetting the chip if you don't see
>> any traffic in <n> seconds. I think this is pretty disgusting, however, so I
>> didn't implement it. The newer revision chips are supposed to have this
>> problem fixed.
>
>   Too much fun. :)  Will downing the interface and bringing it back up 
>reset the chip properly,

   Yes.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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