From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 23 7:20:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wcug.wwu.edu (sloth.wcug.wwu.edu [140.160.164.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EF7737C2F7 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:20:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doc@wcug.wwu.edu) Received: (qmail 17012 invoked by uid 1074); 23 Mar 2000 15:20:36 -0000 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:20:36 -0800 (PST) From: David Daugherty X-Sender: doc@sloth To: Martin MacT Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Setting up a box to use remotely by way of an X-server In-Reply-To: <03ae01bf94d8$0d7bb0c0$7400a8c0@visualedge.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Martin MacT wrote: > Well, I bought a new hub, and, um... well, it still don't work, though I > think that I do get less packet loss now (72% instead of about 79%)... > > Could it be because my card (macronix 98715 based NC-100 from LinkSys) > is set to half duplex instead of full? Also, it seems pretty consistent: > It's good for right around 500 pings, then goes down for aprroximately 820 > seconds and then comes back for 500 pings or so... Well, I suppose I'd start swapping NICs around. It could be the NIC is bad also. That is what I originally did before I realized my hub was bad. Try putting a known reliable NIC in there. Unless you're doing something weird it should be running at half-duplex. You should see something similar to below in your /var/log/messages Mar 19 12:44:06 roosevelt /kernel: pn1: <82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x20 int a irq 12 on pci0.11.0 Mar 19 12:44:06 roosevelt /kernel: pn1: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:28:81:a0 Mar 19 12:44:06 roosevelt /kernel: pn1: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 100Mbps) Of course the computer name (roosevelt) and device name (pn1) will most probably be different. David doc@wcug.wwu.edu Washington State Resident ICQ 21106703 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message