Re: another network

[Cloudmaster <sauer@cloudmaster.com>]

Hmph.  bad cables.

On Tue, 4 May 1999, Cloudmaster wrote:

> 
> I just moved out in-house network to a 10/100 switch.  It's a linksys
> EZSX88W, supposed to automagically sence full/.5 duplex and 10/100MB
> connections.  I don't want full duplex, and I wanna tell my cards to use
> 100Mb connections.  The hub won't let me tell it.
> 
> I've only got 3 working nodes:  a 10baseT hub with all but 2 machines on it,
> a pentium pro with an RTL8139-based card, and a 486DX4/120 with a PCI Ne2000
> card (RTL 8129, IIRC).  The blue n' white mac in house won't work on the
> switch, now will a FIC VA503+ board / RTL8139 (exactly the same as the one
> in the PPro).  Plug either into the hub so htey're forced to 10Mb/s, and
> they work fine.  I've tried "insmod rtl8139 full_duplex=0" and the same with
> 0,0,0 - doesn't do anything obvious.  When the FIC machine's ethernet card
> is initialized, teh activity light starts blinking wildly, but the
> corresponding light on teh hub doesn't blink. I get ap[prox. 60% packet loss
> between the PPro and teh FIC, but no packet loss at all between the PPro and
> the 486.
> 
> Anyone know what's up here?
> 
> --Danny, whos darn tired
> 
> 
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