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Date:      Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:47:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org>
To:        David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: excessive collisions on 10Mbit link
Message-ID:  <20020830194612.S16413-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020831020642.GA674@HAL9000.homeunix.com>

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On 2002-08-30, David Schultz scribbled:

# I have an older Alpha with a 10Mbit ethernet card (DEC 21040
# chipset) directly connected to a PC.  The latter is configured as
# a gateway and has an ADMtek AN985 10/100 card on the relevant
# interface.  I'm getting a ridiculous number of ethernet collisions
# on the link (see below), and I'm wondering whether this might have
# anything to do with my configuration.  (I haven't tried replacing
# the cable yet.)  Any ideas?
#
# dc0   1500  <Link#1>    00:20:78:06:a7:82   373564     0   565278     0 142384
# dc0   1500  192.168.3     192.168.3.1       373462     -   565178     -     -

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.

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Linh Pham                                         lplist@closedsrc.org
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