Dell 2650 drops packets? B57 issues?

In a flashback to the heady days after the dot-com bust....
I have a new work assignment at a school that runs 3 Dell 2650's and 2 Dell
2850 in a Novell cluster (6.5 sp 6).
The three 2650's are having trouble w/ dropping packets -- average about 3%
or more on a 1000 ping trial. Obviously, this is playing havoc at point, or
at least, seeming like ghosts live in the machines.
Are there known issues w/ the B57.lan drivers, version 9.45, June 30, 2006,
on the 2650?
thanks!
Tim Wohlford

>
> I have a new work assignment at a school that runs 3 Dell 2650's and 2
Dell
> 2850 in a Novell cluster (6.5 sp 6).
>
> The three 2650's are having trouble w/ dropping packets -- average about
3%
> or more on a 1000 ping trial. Obviously, this is playing havoc at point,
or
> at least, seeming like ghosts live in the machines.
>
> Are there known issues w/ the B57.lan drivers, version 9.45, June 30,
2006,
> on the 2650?
>
we are running hp-compaq's running q57, which is a rebranded b57 driver,
without a glitch for years.
versions are 8.65 in production, and 10.02 in the test environment.
keep in mind that depending on the switch you are connected to, in case of
a 100Mb connection, you may have to set then nic as well as the switch to
100Mb FD at both sides instead of auto.

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