From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EMnnO-0003YB-TD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:29:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j94EKO7T001601; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:20:24 GMT Received: from smtp2.iway.na (smtp2.iway.na [196.44.136.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j94EGcJd032118 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:16:39 GMT Received: from vscan.iway.na ([196.44.136.13]) by smtp2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id INUDG703.25E for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:24:07 +0000 Received: from mx2.iway.na ([196.44.136.13]) by vscan.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id INUAPE00.BZ2 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:24:50 +0200 Received: from uwix.alt.na ([196.44.156.127]) by mx2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id INUAPF01.Q3V for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:24:51 +0200 Received: from uwe by uwix.alt.na with local (Exim 4.50) id 1EMjTy-0004Vd-Ka for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:53:10 +0200 From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network collisions Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:53:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <43421316.4080304@daveoxley.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <43421316.4080304@daveoxley.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510041153.10392.uwix@iway.na> Sender: Uwe Thiem X-Archives-Salt: 1ab87b56-7bc2-4ffe-8dfd-93dea467456f X-Archives-Hash: 550dac95371575a831713018deaef294 On 04 October 2005 07:28, Dave Oxley wrote: > Hi all, > > I have two Gentoo machines (specified as Server and Client for ease). > The server networking is working fine, but the client cannot receive > without lots of collisions. The speeds I get are: > Server -> Client (i.e. receive) 170.3Kb/sec > Client -> Server (i.e. transmit) 7.383Mb/sec > The cards of both machines are running half duplex. If I try to force > them to full duplex with (ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg > off) then all I get is errors in ifconfig. The module used for > networking on the client is 8139too. Can anybody help me with this? Replace the client's NIC. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list