Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 12:58:18 +1100 From: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: ianf@za.uu.net, Craig Reyenga <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Christopher J Olson <chriso@tamu.edu> Subject: Re: Any ideas at all about network problem? Message-ID: <20021204015818.GB54075@roughtrade.net> In-Reply-To: <a05200f0eba12fd128f05@[10.0.1.2]> References: <a05200f26ba10df70dc1d@[146.106.12.76]> <51189.1038911493@wcom.com> <a05200f0eba12fd128f05@[10.0.1.2]>
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:32:58AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 12:31 PM +0200 2002/12/03, ianf@za.uu.net wrote: > > > The two machines involved are connected by a crossover cable: > > I've heard of lots of problems with machines using cross-over > cables. Can you connect the machines through a switch, and ensure > that they are hard-wired to 100Base-TX full duplex at both ends, as > opposed to auto-negotiating? Just to add to this a-la-carte selection of possibilities; I recently debugged a NIC throughput problem which was resolved by a flash BIOS upgrade. This was an ASUS A7VL-VM motherboard, which appeared to do unpleasant things to PCI IRQs. Joshua -- Joshua Goodall joshua@roughtrade.net "Your byte hit ratio is weak, old man" "If you cache me now, I will dump more core than you can possibly imagine" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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