Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:57:04 -0500 From: "Martin MacT" <martinm@visualedge.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "David Daugherty" <doc@wcug.wwu.edu> Subject: Re: Setting up a box to use remotely by way of an X-server Message-ID: <03ae01bf94d8$0d7bb0c0$7400a8c0@visualedge.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000320121653.24063A-100000@sloth>
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Well, I bought a new hub, and, um... well, it still don't work, though I
think that I do get less packet loss now (72% instead of about 79%)...
Could it be because my card (macronix 98715 based NC-100 from LinkSys)
is set to half duplex instead of full? Also, it seems pretty consistent:
It's good for right around 500 pings, then goes down for aprroximately 820
seconds and then comes back for 500 pings or so...
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Daugherty" <doc@wcug.wwu.edu>
To: "DJ Martin MacT" <martinm@visualedge.com>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: Setting up a box to use remotely by way of an X-server
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, DJ Martin MacT wrote:
>
> > Thanks, I'll give that a go! (ouch, my wallet is starting to
hurt...), I
> > guess I kind of wanted to eventually replace the hub anyway, though,
since
> > the cards are dual mode 10/100 BaseT and the hub I am using is a
10baseT...
> > but the hub itself does seem (to my grotesquely ignorant eyes) to be
> > functioning through all of this... The lights blink when I ping from
FreeBSD
> > to windows, and windows does get the packet, FreeBSD just doesn't get
the
> > one being sent back...
> >
> > I'm wondering if anyone else has had experience with NC-100 (I can
> > verify the exact name when I get home today, 6pm EST) cards from
Linksys...
> > They seem very cranky; under linux, the moment the driver (tulip) got
> > loaded, the hub light would turn off (so I've actually gotten a lot
> > 'further' than b4 (stop laughing at me, I'm just a programmer.))?
> I was also using Linksys NICs and it sounds like you're going through the
> same experiences I had with this a year ago.
>
> I definitely think your hub is bad. That's exactly what mine was doing.
> Under Windoze sometimes the light would go off for 10 seconds and then
> comeback on for a little while. With fbsd it would blink just like it was
> receiving packets.
>
> I started buying the Netgear stuff which is also cheap and I've had little
> to no problems under fbsd. I found an 8-port 10/100 Netgear hub for $102
> on pricewatch. It's worked swimmingly :) for a year now.
>
> Good luck.
>
> David
> doc@wcug.wwu.edu
> Washington State Resident
> ICQ 21106703
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