[Tfug] A really basic, possibly annoying network question...

[Ammon Lauritzen]

Add a switch, it's not worth arguing with duplex mismatches and all
that jazz over crossover ethernet.

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming
<angussf at geoapps.com> wrote:
> On 29 Oct 2010 at 2:49, Jim March  wrote:
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>> Ethernet port in the lappy is gigabit class per lspci:
>>
>> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet
>> Controller
>>
>> In the server it's 10/100, a Realtek RTL8139c.
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> When we had problems like this in Novell days, it was almost always caused by
> autonegociated duplex mismatches.  We resolved it by setting stuff to
> 100mb/half-duplex.  Can you force each NIC to a given duplex setting?
>
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