Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: 3C501, packet drivers, and bootp Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 90 02:50:18 GMT References: <9002201509.AA22868@vax.ftp.com> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 14 In-reply-to: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM's message of 20 Feb 90 15:09:07 GMT In article <9002201509.AA22868@vax.ftp.com> jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) writes: You need to do special hacks on the 3C501 driver in order to allow it to send a broadcast packet longer than X bytes without an error. You see, the card has only one packet buffer, and it sees this packet going out that it wants to receive, and it gets unhappy.... Yes, that seems to be the problem. Now that I have ready access to a 3c501 again, I'll have a go at fixing it. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems