"Transmit timed out" error. Bad hardware?

Osma Ahvenlampi oa-lists@spray.fi
Fri Nov 12 02:33:43 1999


David St. John <david@windcall.com> writes:
> Out of curiosity, this card worked great for 18 months with the original
> driver (which came with Redhat 5.1, v0.36 I think), without reporting any
> error messages.  There were no changes to the system.  That's why I
> suspected a hardware fault.  Anyone know why I would start getting "tx
> timeout" errors all of a sudden?

Your network started to pass multicast traffic onto the machine in
question.

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Osma Ahvenlampi