Intel Pro 100 network card glitch

[Gordon Price]

We have a number of machines with this card, and they seem to occationally
loose their network settings. The machine will slow down, and if you look at
Networking under Task Manager you will see something like 1% Network
utilization during a file copy. However, unplug the cable, then plug it back
in (sometimes more than once, or with a long 10 count before you plug it
back in) and Network Utilization jumps back up where it belongs. This only
seems to happen with those cards. The machines with onboard VIA NICs have
never done this. For that matter, not all the Intel NICs do it, but any
machine that has done it has so far had a Intel Pro card.
Anyone have any insights? Telling users to plug and unplug cables is
starting to look bad

Best,
Gordon

 

[David H. Lipman]

Please explain your network topology.

Dave




| We have a number of machines with this card, and they seem to occationally
| loose their network settings. The machine will slow down, and if you look at
| Networking under Task Manager you will see something like 1% Network
| utilization during a file copy. However, unplug the cable, then plug it back
| in (sometimes more than once, or with a long 10 count before you plug it
| back in) and Network Utilization jumps back up where it belongs. This only
| seems to happen with those cards. The machines with onboard VIA NICs have
| never done this. For that matter, not all the Intel NICs do it, but any
| machine that has done it has so far had a Intel Pro card.
| Anyone have any insights? Telling users to plug and unplug cables is
| starting to look bad
|
| Best,
| Gordon
|
|

 

[NetNut]

We have a number of machines with this card, and they seem to occationally
loose their network settings. The machine will slow down, and if you look at
Networking under Task Manager you will see something like 1% Network
utilization during a file copy. However, unplug the cable, then plug it back
in (sometimes more than once, or with a long 10 count before you plug it
back in) and Network Utilization jumps back up where it belongs. This only
seems to happen with those cards. The machines with onboard VIA NICs have
never done this. For that matter, not all the Intel NICs do it, but any
machine that has done it has so far had a Intel Pro card.
Anyone have any insights? Telling users to plug and unplug cables is
starting to look bad

Best,
Gordon

Have you looked for updated drivers?
http://support.intel.com/sites/support/
The NetNut