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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message