On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 10:06, Steve Grobe wrote: > Running full duplex on a half duplex network will typically cause boatloads > of collisions. Most drivers are smart enough to Auto-Negotiate that at least to the point of being able to set to 10B on a poor 10/100 switch. > > I was thinking the same thing Nate was until I saw a collision count of > zero. > I am guessing cable, hub/switch port or NIC, just like everyone else. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nate Carlson [mailto:natecars at real-time.com] > > On 6 Feb 2002, Perry Hoekstra wrote: > > One of my boxes on the network is having extreme difficulty in > > communicating with the rest of the network. If I do an ifconfig, I > > see upwards of half of the packets dropped: > > > > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:E3:05:92:46 > > inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:1744 errors:967 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2462 > > TX packets:12380 errors:32 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:64 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > > RX bytes:288515 (281.7 Kb) TX bytes:16860881 (16.0 Mb) > > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000 > > > > Now the network is just four boxes, no DNS, just host files and static > > IP addresses for three plus one laptop that uses DHCP (which isn't the > > box that is having problems). My question is: how do I determine if I > > have a bad network card/driver versus a bad network configuration. I > > started digging around with some of the network tools to try to > > diagnose the problem but nothing popped up. However, I am > > network-challenged in this area and something could be staring me in > > the face and I wouldn't know it. > > Is your network card running in full duplex on a half duplex network? > > When you see 1/2 of the packets dropped, that's the problem a lot of the > times.. > > -- > Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 > http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Ben Lutgens http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ Sistina Software Inc. pub 1024D/9A0DDC59 2001-12-12 Ben Lutgens <blutgens at sistina.com> Key fingerprint = 8FCD A1EE CEA7 DEE1 9361 F32C 0A90 30D1 9A0D DC59 sub 1024g/1FC75C99 2001-12-12 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020206/4e86ebb5/attachment.pgp