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Re: What is the reasonable performance of a home 10mbps LAN



On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:18:22PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 minxu@sci.ccny.cuny.edu wrote:
> 
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 52:54:00:E4:2C:8D  
> >           inet addr:192.168.14.1  Bcast:192.168.14.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:968323 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:15265
> >           TX packets:913478 errors:3279 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:3280
> >           collisions:59186 txqueuelen:100 
> >           Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6400 
> 
> There is some physical cabling problem (or a bad device) - are you using
> cat 5 cables? Do you have correctly attached ends? Are both devices set to
> half duplex, etc
> 
> The Frame: and Carrier counters should both be 0, anything else is very
> bad

I would also suggest you check the total length of the cables. I'm not
sure on the limits, but they can only be so long.

Ben


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