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Re: My ethernet problems





Itamar S.-T. wrote:

> The problem: On my (ISA) EtherExpress 16 card, transfer speed is 10kb/s.
> On a 10Megabit card!
>
> Connecting the cable to a 3com card in the same computer gives me
> reasonable speeds, so it's not the cable.  The kernel is the latest -
> 2.0.34, so it's not the kernel.

I have problems with 2.0.34 and 3c509, 3.0.32 is o.k.Regards
Erez

> Both ethernet cards are loaded as
> modules.  Pings give reasonable response times - 1 or 2 ms (it's a really
> long cable.)
>
> So, why am I getting horrible transfer rates?  I could even live with
> 300kb/s, but 10kb/s is just too slow.  And I used to get normal speeds on
> this card!
>
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>  Itamar S.-T.                                      itamars@ibm.net