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from: Geo.
date: 2004-06-03 06:05:52
subject: Re: HELP PLEASE - server dropping connection

From: "Geo." 

"Ellen K"  wrote in message
news:0096c8.c3095c{at}harborwebs.com...
> Most of the below is stuff I don't know anything about, but do the following
> two points cover it or is the "layer 3 switch" part the
critical thing?
>
> 1.  The problem is with a W2K server, although we do have a number of Novell
> servers also.
>
> 2.  The box turned out to have THREE NICs, they have now removed the two
> 10/100's and set the gigabit one to manually negotiate at 1000 full duplex.

that makes a lot of sense, multiple nics on the same network can cause some
really weird effects depending on if they can see each other or not.

Geo.

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