Hi Denis,
Turns out I had a cable problem. Some of the patch cables that I made, had
the wrong pinout. After replacing them, the connection is stable at
100baseTx-FD.
Thanks
John
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 00:01:47 +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote
> On Sunday 29 February 2004 23:30, john wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having problems getting a stable connection with my linux machines
> > when trying to connect them at 100 megabit speeds to a linksys etherfast
> > switch.
> >
> >
> > I have attached some diagnostic outputs for your review. I hope that
> > someone can help me with this problem.
> >
> > I believe using a managed switch will solve the problem, but I don't want
> > to have to spend $1000.00 to fix this problem, when I should be able to
> > obtain a stable connection with the equipment I am currently using.
>
> Try half duplex. You seldom do lots of xfers in both directions at
> once, so half duplex is not a big loss.
>
> Use tcpdump to see what's going on on the wire.
> --
> vda
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