From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 19:56:34 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 0022F37B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:56:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-232-220-15.client.attbi.com [12.232.220.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EAC43E42 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:56:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g832uV9h000367; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:56:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g832uRZi000366; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:56:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:56:27 -0700 From: David Schultz To: Linh Pham Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: excessive collisions on 10Mbit link Message-ID: <20020903025627.GA347@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <20020831020642.GA674@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20020830194612.S16413-100000@q.closedsrc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020830194612.S16413-100000@q.closedsrc.org> 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 Thus spake Linh Pham : > 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. They're both set to half duplex. One card only supports half duplex; the other can't be set manually, but correctly autoselected the proper settings, or so says ifconfig. I'll try fiddling with them a bit more, and I'll replace the cable. Thanks for the tip. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message