[wplug] Ethernet Full Duplex Problem

[John Harrold]

Sometime in August Ken Rambler assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| I have two RH9.0 servers running, one is the firewall and the other a
| file server. My Windows 2000 box on the LAN and the file server are set
| to full duplex and transfer fine. The FW however is only half duplex. If
| I try to force it full, I get very poor performance (transfer).
| 
| The FW log file reports...
| Kernel: eth1: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. 
| Kernel: Probably a duplex mismatch
| Kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 1925(5) current 192(5)
| Kernel: Transmit list 00000000 vs. db562340.
| 
| The eth1 card is a 3Com 10/100 PCI card (3c95x)
| 
| Any ideas??

I've had problems where a computer would switch back and forth between full
and half duplex, and also have really poor network performance. It turned
out to be a bad network cable. By replacing the ends it fixed it. 

Just a thought.


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