From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 3 22:53:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91A437B401 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:53:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from yello.shallow.net (yello.shallow.net [203.18.243.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5729943E4A for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:53:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joshua@shallow.net) Received: by yello.shallow.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5E6F62C44; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 12:58:18 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 12:58:18 +1100 From: Joshua Goodall To: Brad Knowles Cc: ianf@za.uu.net, Craig Reyenga , Terry Lambert , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Christopher J Olson Subject: Re: Any ideas at all about network problem? Message-ID: <20021204015818.GB54075@roughtrade.net> References: <51189.1038911493@wcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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