Re: ethernet cards

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

(Sorry I didn't notice some of the earlier replies before I answered
earlier this afternoon.  I'm trying to catch up on email...)

mike packard said:
> 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.

This sounds a lot like what happens to the HP boxes at work that don't
seem to know how to auto-negotiate properly.  (Or, who knows, maybe
the switch is confusing them.)  The fix there is usually to just force
the switch and the NIC to something they agree on (usually 100 Mbit
full-duplex in this case).

Maybe auto-negotiation on these cards are broke too.  You should poke
around Don Becker's site to see if there's a utility to control the
cards *or* if there's a newer driver.  There will be links to his site
from www.beowulf.org.

Steve
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