On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 13:02:23 +1000 Q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first thing you should try is setting the ethernet card to use > autosense. This enables the autosense pulse to be sent to the switch, > without this some passive/unmanaged switches can get very confused and > switch speeds and duplex at seemingly random intervals for a while > before eventually sorting themselves out again. You should only ever > set > speed & duplex manually if you can set it at BOTH ends. > > The easiest way to identify this as the problem is to do a 'netstat > -i' > and check for collisions. If everything on that LAN segment is full > duplex all the time, there should be none. You will most likely have > to > wait for the problem to occur again before the collisions appear.
A few things .. First, both speed & duplex are set manualyl at both ends. In fact, I did this more than a year ago as a recommendation to solve this particular problem we're discussing now. In other words, the problem existed before I manually set speed/duplex, and afterwards. Second, the problem doesn't ever sort itself out. If I don't reboot the server, the problem continues indefinitely. Last, here is the output of netstat and ifconfig: http://www.tranceambient.com:8000/public/netstat.output.txt Note: The parts marked with 'x' are indicating my internet IP address, which I am futilely trying to mask. Thanks. -- Adam _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
