On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:01 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/17/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But the problems you describe sound like some other device on the > > > network has the same address as your PC. > > > > I think it's more like too much broadcast or problematic Switch/hub > > etc?? I don't knwo > > If it was a switch problem, it should not be specific to some > addresses.
All the Ports connected to that Switch?? > Have you contacted your ISP? Not ISP. @Work. We'll see how things go > > The other option is to get a second PCMCIA card, and swap them when > you have trouble. Perhaps it is time for an upgrade. I've been recycling this old DELL rebadged 3COM 3c509 10BaseT for such a long time. (9 years in fact) > Since the second card would have a different MAC, > it would get a different address. Right now, I'm on the Laptop's internal NIC. (I need 2 nics to enable NAT for my Desktop as well) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:20:27 up 1 day, 23 min, 6 users, load average: 1.38, 1.12, 0.89 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
