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From: "Nickolay A. Kritsky" <nkritsky@star-sw.com>
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Hello sirola,

Monday, August 09, 2004, 7:16:33 PM, sirola@fisica.unige.it wrote:

sfui> Hi Nickolay,

sfui> thanks for the tip, it works now. What could be the reason for the NIC
sfui>  working in half-duplex mode?

Well, in short it looks like mbufs in the switch are getting filled too
fast, what results in random packet drops. Another thing that can help
is, perhaps, `flow-control' feature on the switch. But it is more
complicated, and so, from technical POV is less preferrable.

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