Re: ethernet cards

[Cloudmaster <sauer@cloudmaster.ml.org>]

Do you get a whole lot of collissions when it gets real slow, by any chance?

--Danny, quoting a lot of stuff

On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, mike packard wrote:
> I think someone might have brought this up at the last meeting, but I'm
> curious so I'll ask again. 
> 
> My ethernet card (it's a Linksys Tulip-based) seems to be working fine
> for awhile, then all of a sudden the card gets incredibly slow for no
> reason.  One minute I'll ping another machine in 0.5ms, then it's 2000ms.
> Ouch.  I might just be imagining this part, but it seems like it happens
> whenever I try to transfer a screenful or more of text.  Taking the device
> down with ifconfig and then bringing it right back up seems to fix the
> problem.  Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> On a different machine with the same type of card I keep getting this in
> my logs:
> 
> Apr  7 13:47:07 demeter kernel: eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to
> 	half-duplex, CSR6 816e0000.
> Apr  7 13:49:07 demeter kernel: eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to
> 	half-duplex, CSR6 812e0000.
> Apr  7 13:50:07 demeter kernel: eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to
> 	half-duplex, CSR6 816e0000.
> Apr  7 13:51:07 demeter kernel: eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to
> 	half-duplex, CSR6 812e0000.
> Apr  7 13:52:07 demeter kernel: eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to
> 	half-duplex, CSR6 816e0000.
> Apr  7 13:55:07 demeter kernel: eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to
> 	half-duplex, CSR6 812e0000.
> 
> As you can see, it happens every minute or two.  Anyone know what it
> means?
> 
> Huzzah!
> 
> 
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