>machine 1(client) >K6-2 366 >AOpen AP5T-3 i430TX >Realtek 8139 > >machine 2(server) >P200MMX >Shuttle HOT 569A i430TX >Realtek 8139 > >i booted both into dos mode with a bootdisk and ran the ethernet card's >diagnostics program. set machine 1 to recieve, and machine 2 to transmit >packets..I got to about 30MBit ..BUT when i went the other way..I got >about 10Mbit..they are connected through a Netgear 100BaseT hub(does not >support 10baseT).................but i think its these $14 ethernet cards that i >got. the only (logged) error i get with this card is: > >messages.0:882:May 28 16:44:51 aphro kernel: eth0: Transmit timeout, >status 0d 0000 media 00.
In my systems there are no log........and the speed is the same in both ways. I'm using a 3Com Hub TP800. >when im transferring very large files, win95 locks up for a moment while >it recovers(linux never does) and the transfer continues..can happen >several times during a large transfer. from my ifconfig stats, 1 in 5 >packets is a collision. the collisions are there wether im going >win95-to-linux or win95-to-win95..cept i have nothing that can record >collisions in 95. Under Win95 i've no crash and no locks up but a higher number of collision packets check the configuration of your netcard in the system menu and set it to use FullDuplex 100Mbs. Disable auto-mode.
