Hi, there:
I have just bought another new computer and built a home LAN using two 10mbps
NE2000-pci cards and a hub. It turns to be that the transfer speed between the
two computer varies dramatically.
Sometimes, it can reach 8mbps for few seconds, and then it slows to about
600kbps or even lower. It may touch 20kbps bottom line. Excessive collision is
reported from the hub. And transfer error and receive error can be found by
ifconfig. See:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:E4:2C:8D
inet addr:192.168.14.1 Bcast:192.168.14.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:968323 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:15265
TX packets:913478 errors:3279 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:3280
collisions:59186 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6400
I wonder whether it is what I should get with my systems.
A: Debian unstable with kernel 2.2.10 200Mhz MMX 64M RAM
rtl8029 NIC card using the ne2k-pci driver
B: K6-2 400Mhz window98 64M RAM
rtl8029 driver coming with microsoft
Any help is appreciated.
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Min Xu
City College of NY, CUNY
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