[tulip-bug] Linksys 100TX card hangs

[Stefan Traby]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 07:00:08AM -0400, QuoteMstr wrote:

> My ethernet card, a Linksys 100TX (Using PLIP-II, Lite-On LC82C115)
> hangs under load, and often corrupts data when receiving at speeds
> greater than 100kB/sec or so. I would use a different card, but my
> cablemodem ISP apparently locks users to a specific MAC address
> now. :( (Considering DHCP works for one card but is ignored by the
> other, despite the cablemodem send and receive LEDs lighting when the
> DHCP request is issued, indicating that the cablemodem and nic are
> operation)

I can't see the problem.

ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:10:4B:3C:BB:DE

This works fine with DHCP (hint: use the MAC of your Linksys and not
my 3Com one ;-=}).

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    Stefan

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