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

From: Bruce Adler (bruce.NxOxSxPxAxMx.adler_at_acm.org)
Date: 09/12/03 

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:07:03 GMT

"Dennis Clarke" <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.58.0309110619310.7286@blastwave...
>
> > 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).
>
> Actually this is at home and I have a dumb SMC EtherEZHub 3608T-EZ which has
> a BNC port on it. I like to collect really old systems and get them running.
> What I _really_ need is a Cisco 2900 100Mb switch for home, not a hub.
>

That's very strange. The reason I assumed you had a switch is because
if you've only got two active NICs connected by a hub my gut feeling is
that both NICs should be reporting a similar number of collisions. But
you've got about a 20:1 difference between the two ends of the wire.
That seems really odd to me. Especially coupled with the fact that your
network isn't heavily loaded. If you're all up to date with the latest
hme NIC driver patches, then I'd suspect some sort of bug in pcn or
a defective hub.

BTW, I had a SMC 3605T hub that never seemed to work well and turned itself
into a doorstop in less than 6 months. I replaced it with a cheap FS105 switch
which has worked flawlessly for over a year.

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