RE: [WinMac] Virtual PC with Asante 10/100 card
Jim Royal(jimr[at]Eicon.com)
Wed, 26 Aug 1998 17:26:25 -0400
Bobby Roe wrote:
> Has anyone had success with Virtual PC and the Asante 10/100 PCI
card?
> >
> > Here's the environment:
> >
> > - 9500/132, 64MB RAM, VM on at 80 MB, 2 GB HD with 1.4 GB free
> > - Virtual PC (Windows 95) 2.1 (just downloaded updater today)
> > - Windows NT Server 4.0 SP3 domain
>
>
I am not really sure if this is related, but I have had network problems
running Windows NT Workstation under Virtual PC on my 9600/200.
I typically run Microsoft Outlook in the background as I work. This was not
an issue with Win95 under VPC, but it was with WinNT Workstation.
After about 20 minutes, the level of NT's network activity started
increasing dramatically. The green Ethernet light stayed on solidly.
Outlook, apparently starved for network access, would crash without fail at
this point.
As you probably know, when you put an NT machine on a Windows network, it
starts acting as a repository of networking data on all the other Windows
computer on the network. This means NT generates much more LAN traffic than
Win95. This was the source of my problem.
If you can disable this function of your NT server, it might lower the level
of network activity to a more manageable level. Don't ask me how that might
be done.
Jim Royal
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