3Com EtherLink 3CR990-TX-95 User Manual page 115

Option Description (continued)
Media Type Determines the type of media your network is
using.
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Note: If you are running Windows 2000,
changes made to the Media Type setting
though the 3Com NIC Diagnostics are not
reflected in the registry unless you also
change the Media Select property setting in
Windows 2000:
1.In the Device Manager window,
2.Right-click the 3CR990 NIC and select
3.Select the Advanced tab.
4.Select Media Select in the property list, and
Self Healing Monitors firmware heartbeat and interrupt stalls,
and tries to automatically reset the NIC.
Also monitors link status and reports changes.
Self Healing Checks for transmit/receive errors and tries to
Enhanced recover.
Error Tolerance Specifies threshold levels fortransmit/receive
errors. An RSL failover or NIC reset occurs
when the threshold is exceeded during the
sampling period.
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Alert Type Enabled alert types are reported to the
(Windows NT) Windows System Events monitor.
Auto Select allows the NIC to automatically
select the Media Type for you.
If you set the NIC Duplex setting to
Auto Select, the Media Type is
automatically set to Auto Select.
If you set the NIC Duplex setting manually,
you must set the Media Type setting
manually.
double-click Network adapters.
Properties.
make the appropriate setting change in the
Value list.
Low = 5 of each error category
Medium = 50 of each error category
High = 100 of each error category
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Settings
AUTO SELECT
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100BASE-TX
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(100 Mbs)
10BASE-T
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(10 Mbs)
ENABLED
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Disabled
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DISABLED
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Enabled
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Low
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MEDIUM
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High
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Off
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Information
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Warning
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Error
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