on 6/13/03 12:18 PM, Manuel Bouyer at bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:14:05PM -0500, Peter Eisch wrote:
>> 
>> The switch is a dell 3024.  Note though, I was scp'ing OUT through the fxp1
>> interface.  Unless the ACKs coming back were huge, the issue shouldn't have
>> been from the switch to the host.  The switch was seeing nothing but
>> malformed frames.  Every so often something would trickle through, but
>> nothing reliable.
> 
> Maybe a duplex mismatch then ?
> 

It must be.  How reliable is "autoselect" short of looking at the LEDs on
the back of the nic?  I've forced the nics to full-duplex and life does seem
to be better.  I'll check that once I'm on sight again.

Thanks for pointing out the simple  things Manuel!

peter