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[Chris Stamborski]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Tim Lanza wrote:

> 
> I've seen this mentioned before, but I must be dense.
> How does one set the Linux box NIC to half duplex?

It pretty much depends on the card.  See Don Becker's site at:

http://www.scyld.com/linux_network_drivers.html

)chris(


> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Chris Stamborski
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 1:22 PM
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Re: your mail
> 
> 
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Richard Furda wrote:
> 
> >
> > 	Hello,
> >
> >
> > > It looks like tha I have the same problem as you have
> >
> > Yes, I encountered very similar problems but under FreeBSD.
> > I doubt it has anything to do with the OS, but my thread
> > has been either ignored or missed.
> >
> > > I just posted:
> > > "
> > > I am running samba 2.07 on linux (suse7).
> > > Client is Win98se both on 100MbitFD (auto)
> > > Testing with a 85MB File
> > > reading is ~4MB/sec
> > > writeing is ~0.5MB/sec
> > > after the writing a lot transfer errors are shown
> > > by "ifconfig eth0"
> > > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:6D:13:7F:AF
> > >            inet addr:10.10.1.10  Bcast:10.10.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> > >            inet6 addr: fe80::3:6d13:7faf/10 Scope:Link
> > >            inet6 addr: fe80::203:6dff:fe13:7faf/10 Scope:Link
> > >            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> > >            RX packets:152178 errors:6733 dropped:0 overruns:6733
> frame:6733
> > >            TX packets:160029 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:3 carrier:0
> > >            collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> > >            Interrupt:12 Base address:0x2000
> > >
> > > same file transfered with ftp r/w ~3.5MB/sec.
> > > "
> > > My NIC is a Linksys (Tulip) card.
> >
> > You seem to have a lot of errors which could very possibly be because of
> > bad cabling or a lot of crosstalk. You also seem to have 'zero'
> > collisions, thus using a Layer2 switch, or is it crossover?
> 
> Looks like you have a duplex mismatch somewhere.  If your linux box is
> attached to a hub, you should be running half-duplex.  If you're running
> off a true switch, force both the switch port and the linux box to full
> duplex.
> 
> On a clean 100mbit FD network you should see almost 0 errors and 0
> collisions.
> 
> On a clean 100mbit HD network you should see almost 0 errors and <5%
> collisions.
> 
> )chris(
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > 	Richard
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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