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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just to throw this out there for the group. I
had a box of OEM SMC NICs and have been using them in all systems I build
including * boxes. They seem to work great in Windows machines and even
plain old Linux workstations but apparently not all that well when realtime is
required. I would get random and usually sparse disconnects and lose
registrations with phones and IAX peers. I kept getting "eth0 too much
work at interrupt" and thought that it was an irq problem. I
made sure that nothing was sharing IRQs and the problem still persisted.
Finally looking at the error and ruling out the interrupt part I was left
with the eth0 part. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Long story made short</FONT> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>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. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Steve Totaro</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>