From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 28 14: 5: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stereophonic.noops.org (adsl-63-195-97-84.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E80C437B402 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:05:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 53809 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Jan 2002 22:05:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Jan 2002 22:05:05 -0000 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:05:05 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Cannon To: "RAD2921 - RADIGAN, TIMOTHY " Cc: Subject: Re: Network Collisions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020128140220.M53658-100000@stereophonic.noops.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 Sure. Use a crossover cable or plug the boxes into a switch and make sure each NIC is set to full-duplex. In a full duplex environment collisions are an impossibility. If you're getting a ton of them and it's just those two machines plugged into a hub, make sure neither is set to full-duplex. If it is, it'll transmit without listening to see if anything else is talking already, which'll cause that collision light to work overtime. Cheers, --thomas On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, RAD2921 - RADIGAN, TIMOTHY wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just wondering if there is a way to minimize the collisions I'm getting > when transferring data from my WinXP box to my FreeBSD box. The > collision light is flashing alot when transferring files. It seems a > little excessive. Any ideas? > > Tim > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message