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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:37:04 -0700
Subject: Re: excessive collisions on 10Mbit link
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On Friday, Aug 30, 2002, at 19:06 US/Pacific, David Schultz wrote:

> I have an older Alpha with a 10Mbit ethernet card (DEC 21040
> chipset) directly connected to a PC.  The latter is configured as
> a gateway and has an ADMtek AN985 10/100 card on the relevant
> interface.  I'm getting a ridiculous number of ethernet collisions
> on the link (see below), and I'm wondering whether this might have
> anything to do with my configuration.  (I haven't tried replacing
> the cable yet.)  Any ideas?
>
> dc0   1500  <Link#1>    00:20:78:06:a7:82   373564     0   565278     
> 0 142384
> dc0   1500  192.168.3     192.168.3.1       373462     -   565178     
> -     -


Check for duplex mismatch between the two machines.

KeS


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