At 21:26 20/06/2001 +0200, Paul Huygen wrote:
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb
> RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only,
> but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible
> to make it be a masquerading router. it's probably going to fail, but
> i want to try anyway.
There is no reason for it to fail.
Alas there is - the network card. In a school installation of approximately
300 (admittedly Win9x) workstations with cheapo network cards, about 1 a
day fails. Rebooting doesn't work, so it doesn't seem to be driver related.
I even observed this at home. The solution seems to be taking the card out
and putting it back in. On the other hand,
I don't understand it. On the positive side, those machines with named ( in
this case SMC or 3Com) cards never fail.
Nik
