[Asterisk-Users] What a Difference a NIC makes

[Dave Weis]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Harry Flink wrote:
>> Long story made short I swapped out the SMC NICs with 3com and the world
>> is right again.  I have absolutely no errors in the console and every
>> phone and peer stays available.  If you are having problems and connot
>> isolate why, try another NIC.
> I'm having this very same problem with 3COM 3c905-tx/tx-m NIC. I never
> thought it might somehow relate to Asterisk. My kernel is 2.4.26 with
> Debian patches (distro is unstable Debian SID) and motherboard has VIA
> chipset.

I've always had great luck with the intel eepro100 cards. It depends a bit 
on your machine, it might be related to the via chipset.

dave

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