Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:21:50 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP oddities in -STABLE Message-ID: <C5AC39E2-33A5-11D7-806A-000A27D85A7E@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20030129093958.GG88010@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 04:39 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> Background: The client is an old Pentium laptop running 4.6 from
> mid-July, using a 3Com Etherlink III 3C589 NIC (10baseT). The server
> is an Athlon XP running -stable from last Sunday, using a RealTek 8139
> NIC (100baseTX FD). They are connected using a cheap-and-very-nasty
> switch. 'netstat -m' on the client shows no problems and there are no
> kernel messages suggesting a resource problem.
Try switching the Althon box to running a 10Mbs/HD; your switch may not be
handling the different speeds very well. (Although your NICs are also
somewhat dubious in terms of quality hardware, too.)
-Chuck
Chuck Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | All your packets are belong to
us.
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