Re: Poor network performance: a lot of timeouts

From: Sebastian Ahndorf (webmaster_at_it-is-warlock.de)
Date: 05/30/05

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    Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 22:56:22 +0200
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>

    Kris Kennaway wrote:
    >>Both sides must have same config, autosense should work if there is no
    >>config possibility in other end.
    >
    >
    > autosense may in fact not work, especially on low-quality NICs like rl.
    >

    I don't agree to that.
    I had similar problems with my network using a cheap switch with some
    realtek nics. I had the nics running 100baseTX Full Duplex.
    Changing this to autosense made the problems gone.

    Reason (as some people of the german questions-list told me):
    Many cheap switches always send their autosensepakets, and have great
    problems if the nics connected to the switch do not response to the
    autosensepakets (cause they are configured to 10/100baseTX full/half
    duplex).
    Also realtek nics are far away from being good nics, they work without
    problems with the autosensemode and a cheap switch for me (and many
    other people I know).

    I would suggest the starter of this thread to use autosense with his nic
    (if not tested yet).

    > Kris

    Best regards
    Sebastian
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