Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 21:19:31 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Zwilling <chris@cloudnet.com> To: "eric ." <anon025@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: routing table. deleting broadcast Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002172115590.27485-100000@arus.cloudnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000218031247.65230.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, eric . wrote: > > i think what screwing up my network, [ie0: too many collisions] is the > broadcast to the other machine on my routing table, i tried deleting it > using: > > route delete 192.168.255.0 > 192.168.255.0> is the destination, the gateway is ff:ff: blah blah, > broadcast, how do i delete. > > > also, someone told me that because i have a 7ft crosscable, that i should > buy a 14ft, and that would solve the problem, they said thats why i'm having > 'too many collisions', is this true? > If you are on a cross cable - that means the transmit terminals of one nic is going to the recieve terminals on the other nic. And viceyversa. Now since you can't broadcast on recieve terminals - in this setup it is impossible to have collisions.. So we have to explore what is going on here. I would venture to guess that one of your NIC cards is in half duplex mode. Check out the man page for ie0 and ifconfig on how to setup the card for full duplex. Doubling the length of the cable will not do anyhthing for you. Collisions are when both ethernet cards decided to speak at the same time. In theory both cards are then supposed to back off, wait for a random period of time, listen to the wire for activity, and if there is no activity, try the transmit again. Good Luck! ;-----------------------------------------; ; ; Chris Zwilling ; The real trouble with reality is ; chris@cloudnet.com ; that there is no background music. ; System Administrator ; ; 320.240.8243 ;-----------------------------------------; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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