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From: CLIFF@UCBCMSA.BITNET (Cliff Frost {415} 642-5360)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: FAL 1.2/BTI/Proteon problem
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Date: 15 Dec 88 20:37:00 GMT
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> Before we go crazy here, I thought I'd broadcast this cry for help on the
> net to see if anyone else has experienced similar behavior or had an opinion
> on the solution to our problem.

Well, we've seen something similar with Proteon Ethernet boards and our
Ungermann-Bass boards in PCs.  But, you are running thin-wire and that
may change things.

Anyway, the problem we saw was that on certain small packets the Proteon
ethernet controller pads the packet with nulls to a greater length.
Our UB cards won't pick up these packets, even though they are perfectly
valid.  Because of this we can't put Proteon Ethernet boards into most
of our routers and remain with Interlan boards.  (I'm not sure what the
status of a fix from UB is, but we have so many of their boards out
there it'll take a long time before we can fix them all.)

If you have Proteon Ethernet boards, you might try an Interlan one and
see if it makes a difference.
        Cliff