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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network collisions
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 09:51:09
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0510040246o30d20c61lba2b5b95e727f2b3@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Network collisions by Dave Oxley
1 On 10/3/05, Dave Oxley <dave@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > I have two Gentoo machines (specified as Server and Client for ease).
5 > The server networking is working fine, but the client cannot receive
6 > without lots of collisions. The speeds I get are:
7 > Server -> Client (i.e. receive) 170.3Kb/sec
8 > Client -> Server (i.e. transmit) 7.383Mb/sec
9 > The cards of both machines are running half duplex. If I try to force
10 > them to full duplex with (ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg
11 > off) then all I get is errors in ifconfig. The module used for
12 > networking on the client is 8139too. Can anybody help me with this?
13 >
14
15 I just recently had a problem like this. In my case the switch
16 everything was plugged into got in some strange state and power
17 cycling the switch fixed the problem.
18
19 Hope this helps,
20 Mark
21
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Re: [gentoo-user] Network collisions Dave Oxley <dave@××××××××××××.uk>