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Re: [vortex, eepro100] True on TRANSMIT ERROR TIMEOUT

To: dancer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Tres Hofmeister <tres@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [vortex, eepro100] True on TRANSMIT ERROR TIMEOUT
From: Andrey Savochkin <saw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:55:56 +0800
Cc: netdev <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <3949654F.958B1718@zeor.simegen.com>; from "dancer@zeor.simegen.com" on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:22:55AM
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Hello,

On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:22:55AM +1000, dancer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Tres Hofmeister wrote:
[snip]
> >         I *never* thought I'd be fighting off our NT pushers because
> > our Linux web server seemed unreliable... :(  Oh, well.
> 
> Here, also, though we're running a complete range of services for a million
> or so people. Does that count as 'enterprise'?. We got over
> all-too-frequent kernel panics by replacing our vortex cards with
> eepro100's. It's hard to justify another hardware switch to our partners,
> who have been pushing Sun or NT for the last several years. Of course, our
> third choice for cards would have been tulips. :/

You definitely will have problems defending the choice of Linux instead of
Sun and NT.  That's because you do not take actions.
Have you ever considered to report your problems, help developers to debug
your case?

Regards
                                        Andrey V.
                                        Savochkin

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