Oh, okay, never read the faq before, this was learning out of experience
many many years ago at 2am in the morning at a client site with the IT
manager breathing over my shoulder because a server was down and needed its
NIC's replaced....
Ah.... the good old days ;-)
Curt
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Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: Here's a weird one (kinda OT)
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Curt Vendel wrote:
>
> > The TPO's were 3COM 509's (bad children) I had many issues with those
> > adapters, I especially had issues with them playing well with others.
> > On a few installs of Novell and Win NT servers, when 2 or more of these
> > were in the servers I found that they had to be installed one at a time
> > and configured one at a time then they could all be installed and
> > tested... However have a 509b-TPO and another nic like SMC or Intel
> > and talk about seeing a piece of h/w throw a tantrum.
>
> This is actually somewhat addressed in the 509 FAQ on 3Com's website, and
> their solution is as you describe (plug in one and install, then plug in
> the other and repeat).
>
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