Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> :
> :No switching infrastructure.  It's a 10mb/s half duplex ethernet
> :network, with two hubs between the two machines.
> :
> :Joe
> 
>     I think there may be a problem with your hub setup (e.g. exceeding the
>     hub count or end-to-end length limitations) that is either resulting
>     in packet loss, or the packet burst is locking up the ethernet long
>     enough to cause a timeout.  The problem looks very much like an
>     unrecognized collision to me.
> 
>     I recommend replacing the hubs with switches.  The whole topology will
>     be happier.

Or maybe just with better hubs. I've seen cheap hubs that
started losing packets when the load went above ~5MB/s.

-SB

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