Mark,

Can you include IP addressing info??  Another potential source of problems
is mismatched subnet masks.

Can you provide MAC addresses of _all_ the ethernet nodes on the
segment?? (match to ip addrs and machine types)

BTW, who makes your transceiver(s)??

thanks,
tod


On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Mark Abene wrote:

> Hello.  I'm experiencing a very strange problem on my home LAN, which I've
> traced back to my two NetBSD boxes being the cause.  The two NetBSD boxes
> in question are a Sun3/80 and a Sun4/110, running 1.4.2 and 1.3.3, respectively.
> All of my machines, including the Suns, can do sustained transfers from the
> internet through my gateway machine no problem.  The problem is in transfering
> files locally, between any two machines.  I see CONSTANT collisions on my
> hubs, and the file transfer throughput slows to a crawl.  If I unplug both
> Suns (running NetBSD) from my LAN, everything is fine again!  Has anyone else
> seen this?  What is it that NetBSD is doing to cause so many collisions???
> 
> Thanks,
> -Mark
>