These are combo cards (cheap ne2000 clones) in the 10base-T mode, which I don't think has full-duplex.
Funny, rebooting didn't make any difference but I went away for an hour and when I came back and used the computers there were no more collisions and there haven't been any since (I haven't rebooted either). Bob On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I have a system running potato which suddenly started experiencing a large > > number of collisions on its ethernet port. It seems to work fine for a > > while and suddenly I get collisions and everything grinds to a halt. This > > just started and I was wondering if anything had changed in potato which > > would cause this, or if I might have developed a hardware problem. > > I have a third alternative. Maybe one of your network cards is > running in full duplex mode and the other one is only half > duplex. However, sometimes the cards come up in matching > duplex mode and things work fine. I have heard about cases where > this particular "feature" has caused problems like the ones you > are describing. > > I myself have two machines connected with a cross over cable and > the link between them is running at 100Mbits/Full duplex. The both > machines have a 3c905b network card and I ensure the correct mode > of operation by loading the driver modules with "options=12". > > > Bob > > // Heikki > -- > Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland > > > ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
