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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 18:04:23 -0600
To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
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Subject: Re: Realtek 8139
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I agree about the switch. Here is mine on a slow day:
sageame@sage-one$ netstat -i
Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
rl0   1500  <Link#1>    00:40:33:57:92:dd  2775481     0  4746651     0     0
rl1   1500  <Link#2>    00:50:ba:5f:a4:71   600376     0   599976     0   238

At 10:13 AM 12.20.2001 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
>On Wednesday, 19 December 2001 at 23:10:40 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 07:14:20PM -0600, John Hoover wrote:
>>>
>>> Outside of making sure I set the media type, I've not had any more trouble
>>> from these than any other card.
>>> I've been told to play with the half/full duplex settings to help things,
>>> but I'm not one to go playing with machines that work.
>>>
>> I have 5 of them in active use as we speak, and they have all behaved
>> perfectly.
>>
>> Collisions are a normal part of the way ethernet works.
>
>Not when you're connected to a switch.
>
>  #netstat -i
>  Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs
Coll
>  xl0   1500  <Link#1>    00:50:da:cf:07:35 16691227     1 11576350     0
   0
>  rl0   1500  <Link#1>    00:02:44:17:f8:da 24982667     0 40471106     0
   0
>
>Greg
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Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Server Admin

Sage-American
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