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From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
To: "Chris Fedde" <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
Cc: "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: Is this ping normal? 
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 22:51:42 -0500
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These Nic cards are brand new.
The box and the manuals say they are 100baseT Nics.

-----Original Message-----
From: cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us [mailto:cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us]On
Behalf Of Chris Fedde
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:39 PM
To: Joe & Fhe Barbish
Cc: FBSD Questions
Subject: Re: Is this ping normal?

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 22:07:52 -0500  "Joe & Fhe Barbish" wrote:
 +------------------
 | Using a FBSD 4.4 box with a generic install where
 | the only thing customized is the Nic card as full
 | duplex and Ip assigned using ifconfig,
 | connected with a crossover cable to a Winbox with
 | it's Nic card configured full duplex with IP
 | address and other associated items hard coded in
 | the windows networking configuration.
 |
 | No matter which way I ping, FBSD to Win or Win
 | to FBSD I get 2 to 4 timed out packets out of 10,
 | or 8 to 15 out of 100. There is nothing else going
 | on in these machines except that ping.
 | This just does not seem right. I have pinged IP
 | addresses of places in Honk Kong and get no timed
 | out packets so what is the problem with 10 feet of
 | cable between my server and the Winbox?
 +------------------

You may also be having a problem with the full duplex config. Cards
at both ends of the cable and any hub/switch in the middle must
agree that it is full duplex.  Many older nics don't support
full duplex well even if they let you configure it.  As a diagnostic
try the test from both ends and try  all four combinations of duplex
settings.

--
    Chris Fedde


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