Out of curiosity, does the ethernet network have lots of traffic on it?
Your machine may not be passing packets in or out, but it's still listening
to every packet that is transmitted on the net... and lots of traffic also
means there's lots of collisions on that network... and from my tests with
a ethernet switch, you can totally elminate all the time out 3c59x.c
problems if you eliminate the collisions the 3com card "sees"...
-Richard
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