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Date:      Mon, 21 May 2001 15:18:02 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        the-beach <sam2539@the-beach.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIC troubleshooting?
Message-ID:  <3B09158A.64896CBD@i-clue.de>
References:  <B72BBEDD.7360%sam2539@the-beach.net>

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the-beach schrieb:
> 
> FreeBSD machine with 2 NICs doing the nat thing, all was working fine.
> 
> One NIC died, so I replaced it with some card I just had lying around, a
> cheapy. Had to reconfigure all the nat, rc.conf and rc.firewall stuff
> because the new cheapy card is a dc type, whatever that means. The working
> config before the card failed was NICs de0 & de1, now it's dc0 and de0 (just
> in case that's important).
> 
> Now the connection from the nated out workstations to the internet show a
> lot of packet loss pinging anywhere outside the private network.
> 
> I wouldn't know what to do other than go buy another NIC and try it. Are
> there some cool tools to check what's wrong?

Check duplex state of both bords. If a ethernet 10baseT board is
connected to a switch, full duplex should be set. For all other cases,
half duplex is the way to go.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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