Thanks,
		That gives me good reason to suspect NT network integration
with NetBSD. There is a reasonable speed difference between the two systems.
I will look into it and report back at a later date.
	With the comment on Windows drivers, do you mean the network
settings that Windows detects through the card of the network, or windows
detection of the device itself.
	Familiar with switches, routers and bridges. Don't think poor hub is
to blame. Also the hubs at my work are full-duplex as that's the network
configuration picked up by my network card. Just finished looking through a
manual for an Intel hub but it didn't explicitly say one way or the other.
Switches can be configured one way or the other. Bearing this in mind both
types of hub should be available but I haven't encountered a half-duplex
only model. A full-duplex model should support half-duplex but probably
depends on manufacturer.

Murray Armfield
Murray@gem.com.au

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Zdenek Salvet [SMTP:salvet@ics.muni.cz]
	Sent:	Friday, 2 July 1999 16:01
	To:	murray@gem.com.au
	Cc:	port-i386@netbsd.org
	Subject:	Re: FW: NE2000 driver

	> Why then do I notice better behaviour with EXACTLY the same
equipment ?
	> In fact nothing has changed except booting to a different disk and
OS.

	- In my experience, machines with fast networking stack are more
	influenced by half/full-duplex misconfiguration than slower
machines.
	I get 5 KB/s TCP from very fast SGI server when I set the opposite
mode
	on its Fast Ethernet interface.
	- Windows driver for the card can ignore user settings if they seem
wrong
	  to it.

	> PS: As an electronic/electrical engineer, I find it very hard to
believe
	> hubs are half-duplex.

	They create shared medium. Ethernet "hub" with isolated ports is
normally
	called switch or bridge.

	-- 
	Zdenek Salvet
salvet@ics.muni.cz 
	Ustav vypocetni techniky Masarykovy univerzity, Brno
	tel.: ++420-5-41 512 257                           Fax: ++420-5-41
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