:> clueful person bitten by this:
:>
:> hard-wire your duplex setting on your machine and also on the switch
:
: If you check <http://www.backplane.com/diablo/hard.html> and
:scroll down to the "Network:" section (from the looks of things,
:written sometime back in 1997 or perhaps 1998), you'll see that Matt
:has been well aware of this problem for some time.
:
: That's not to say that he might have forgotten his own advice on
:this issue, just that he is (or should be ;-) well aware of it.
:
:
: That said, I have to admit that I have yet to be bitten by this
:problem, and I have not (yet) configured machines & switches at this
:site to forcibly select a particular media speed and plexicity.
:
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:Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/>
: <http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE38CCEF1>
That's less of a problem as boards have started to conform better,
but I definitely checked it - full-duplex worked fine (I could push
over 15 MBits aggregate). My packet loss occured with both half and
full duplex.
I finally tracked it down. The loss is occuring in the link between
two of my switches. The link goes across my apartment - about 60 feet of
Cat-5 cable. That should be well within spec (you are supposed to be
able to do 100 meters) but it causes packet loss. The switches
autonegotiate full-duplex for the link (and I verified that it's actually
running at full duplex), but that's where the packet loss occurs. Very
weird.
I was finally able to fix it by dropping in a 10BaseT hub to force the
switches to negotiate 10BaseT across the link.
Maybe my cable is damaged or something. I'll run a second cable to see
if that's the problem or whether.
The second switch is a LinkSys. I have a D-Link near my servers and a
LinkSys near my workstation.
-Matt
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