Re: what the 10 year old wants on Solaris x86 .. games games games !

From: Bruce Adler (bruce.NxOxSxPxAxMx.adler_at_acm.org)
Date: 09/11/03 

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:09:00 GMT

"Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:pan.2003.09.11.00.37.41.590070@yahoo.com...
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:20:49 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
> > The network is just going nuts !
> >
> > $ netstat -i -I pcn0 5
> > input pcn0 output input (Total) output
> > packets errs packets errs colls packets errs packets errs colls
> > 203808 0 97150 0 2807 207450 0 100792 0 2807
>
> > $ netstat -i -I hme0 5
> > input hme0 output input (Total) output
> > packets errs packets errs colls packets errs packets errs colls
> > 428332 0 495580 1 73526 428413 0 495661 1 73526
>
> How about replacing that hub with a switch which will autoneg 100 F/D?
>

Actually it looks to me like his switch is doing full-duplex but
his NICs are doing half-duplex (AFAIK, full-duplex NICs never report
collisions). In fact, I don't think the pcn NIC supports full-duplex
at all (at least I don't recall them ever being tested by Sun that way).
AFAIK the only way to get a mis-match like that is for someone to have
disabled auto-negotiate and forced the switch to assume full-duplex mode.
Looks like you might have hoisted yourself upon your own petard.

Dennis, as was suggested multiple times before (when you first
complained about Sx86 NIC problems), I too suggest that you just
go to ebay and spend the $10 to get a cheap (but supported) Intel
NIC for your PC, configure everything to auto-negotiate, and then sit
back and watch it all just work correctly.

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