From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 19:48:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDEB737B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:48:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD3443E65 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:48:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 470655340; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:47:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 395FE52D9; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:47:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:47:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: David Schultz Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: excessive collisions on 10Mbit link In-Reply-To: <20020831020642.GA674@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Message-ID: <20020830194612.S16413-100000@q.closedsrc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-08-30, David Schultz scribbled: # 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 00:20:78:06:a7:82 373564 0 565278 0 142384 # dc0 1500 192.168.3 192.168.3.1 373462 - 565178 - - One thing that I would recommend on doing is to force set the NIC on both computers to be the same speed... like 10BaseT/half-duplex or something that both NICs can support. Mismatched speed and duplex settings can cause quite a few problems on networks and computers, even if they are connected to switches or hubs. -- Linh Pham lplist@closedsrc.org Webmaster and FreeBSD Geek http://closedsrc.org closedsrc.org Every solution breeds new problems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message