The solution below worked just fine! Thanks!

//Oscar

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Hrvoje Crvelin wrote:

HC>
HC> Very much same issue was with Compaq cards and registry key was
HC> solution
HC> provided by Compaq/HP support.  With others (like Yours) it is
HC> ScatterGatherDma
HC> issue.  This is a fix suggested by the SysKonnect vendor. I had at
HC> least 3
HC> customers with other NICs who resolved that in same manner:
HC>
HC> Step 1.
HC> Start the Registry Editor tool REGEDIT.
HC>
HC> Step 2.
HC> Open the path to the driver's options:
HC>
HC> \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HC> \SYSTEM
HC> \CurrentControlSet
HC> \Control
HC> \Class
HC> \{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
HC> \XXXX
HC>
HC> Where the XXXX must be replaced by the instance number of the driver,
HC> i.e. 0000, 0001 etc.
HC>
HC> Step 3.
HC> - Add a new driver parameter by clicking EDIT / NEW and then selecting
HC> "String".
HC> Name the value "SGMapRegistersNeeded" and assign it a value of 50.
HC>
HC> Step 4.
HC> Reboot the system.
HC>
HC> More on this issue. The problem is due to a Microsoft function of NDIS
HC> called
HC> ScatterGatherDma. In some very rare cases when a packet to be sent
HC> consists of too
HC> many small buffers NDIS has not enough resources to send this packet.
HC> In NT4 and
HC> W9x the driver is using an older function and can see this resource
HC> problem and
HC> solve it by copying the fragments together. Using the new functions in
HC> Windows 2000,
HC> this responsibility went to NDIS, where the packets were discarded
HC> without notification.
HC>
HC> On NetWorker level, the workaround is to start nsrexecd from command
HC> line (that's not
HC> net start nsrexecd but running nsrexecd [and nsrd] in separate cmd
HC> window).
HC>
HC> Cheers,
HC> Hrvoje
HC>
HC>
HC>

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