Subject: Re: very strange ethernet problem
To: Mark Abene <phiber@radicalmedia.com>
From: Tod Daniels <tod@dca.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/30/2000 22:10:54
Mark,
Can you include IP addressing info?? Another potential source of problems
is mismatched subnet masks.
Can you provide MAC addresses of _all_ the ethernet nodes on the
segment?? (match to ip addrs and machine types)
BTW, who makes your transceiver(s)??
thanks,
tod
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Mark Abene wrote:
> Hello. I'm experiencing a very strange problem on my home LAN, which I've
> traced back to my two NetBSD boxes being the cause. The two NetBSD boxes
> in question are a Sun3/80 and a Sun4/110, running 1.4.2 and 1.3.3, respectively.
> All of my machines, including the Suns, can do sustained transfers from the
> internet through my gateway machine no problem. The problem is in transfering
> files locally, between any two machines. I see CONSTANT collisions on my
> hubs, and the file transfer throughput slows to a crawl. If I unplug both
> Suns (running NetBSD) from my LAN, everything is fine again! Has anyone else
> seen this? What is it that NetBSD is doing to cause so many collisions???
>
> Thanks,
> -Mark
>