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- From: timothy@gab.unt.edu (Timothy Christian (CAS, x4175))
- Subject: How come these NE3200s do not work?
- Message-ID: <timothy.12.727721410@gab.unt.edu>
- Summary: NE3200s fail to receive frames after ATPS loads ...
- Keywords: NW v3.11, ATPS, AMI EZ-Flex
- Lines: 57
- Sender: usenet@mercury.unt.edu (UNT USENet Adminstrator)
- Organization: College of Arts and Sciences
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:50:10 GMT
-
- Hello,
-
- I just brought up an AMI EZ-FLEX 486DX/50 (not DX2) server with
- two ne3200 cards installed. We run IPX, TCP and EtherTalk on
- this server, but we ran into some problems, and I am hoping you
- can help.
-
- For some reason, when I load ATPS, the ne3200 card decides to
- stop receiving packets - and believes that it is still
- broadcasting (though it isn't). This information I learned from
- monitor.nlm and "track on." After a while, I'll get the "LAN
- receive buffer limit reached" message which eventually makes the
- server nose-dive. I don't think it is the ATPS that is causing
- the problem, though. I have heard *rumors* that some EISA
- adapters cannot handle multiple protocols, but surely the
- strongly supported NE3200 is not in this class.
-
- I have tried several different options including:
-
- set auto register memory above 16 megabytes = off
- Increasing the maximum physical packet size to
- 1530 (which fixes the no ECB avail count)
- Increasing minimum and maximum packet receive buffers
- Original ATPS without patches
- Original ATPS with patches
- New ATPS (no patches exist beyond this version, that
- I know of)
- NE3200s in enhanced mode
- NE3200s in interrupts only mode
-
- I really feel that memory is being corrupted somehow, or I am
- having some other problem and this is a side-effect. I installed 2
- Western Digital Elite/16 ISA cards in the same server and haven't
- had this problem.
-
- Here is the pertinent hardware information:
-
- AMI 486DX/50 EZ-Flex
- Novell NetWare v3.11
- 32 MB of RAM
- DL2000
- 2 NE3200 (Rev H)
- Adaptec 1742 controller with an HP 2.4 GB disk
- (running in enhanced mode)
-
- Here is the pertinent software information:
- Novell Netware 386 v3.11, 250 users
- atps.nlm 73724 3-27-92 13:48
- ne3200.lan 16041 8-09-91 8:21
-
- Can you think of anything I am missing?
-
- If you have a similar configuration running (Motherboard,
- protocols, software), I would be interested in hearing
- that this works *some* place.
-
- I really appreciate any help you can provide,
-