Hello Alan,

> I was thinking it may have been a kernel or kernel module change that caused
> the problem but if the issue happens on other OSs that's not the case.

At first I too thought that Linux might have been the cause. But I had
changed Linux distro's but using the same hardware and had the same issue.

> Maybe the NIC (built in?) just gave up for some reason. Glad you got it
> sorted.. :)

I tried disabling the integrated NIC and used a USB based NIC and had the
same issue. Once I changed the motherboard (I actually moved the existing
BBBS as a whole to another PC) the issue disappeared. The existing
motherboard seems to work fine in all other aspects of operation. The PC
had a 500 GB SSD boot drive with 6 TB of SATA HD's so it made a decent PC
for BBS/FTN use. At some point I will replace the motherboard in the
problem PC.

I was having another issue with an intermittent failure of both inbound and
outbound connectivity which included both Binkp as well as Http
connectivity. I initially thought it was also related to the NIC issue. But
it turned out to be a fault in the DSL modem/router. Once I replaced the
modem/router that issue also ceased.



Jeff 

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