Hi there,

make sure both adapters are set to either full or half
duplex. Packet loss like in your case sounds like a
mismatch of those settings.

Cheers, Oliver



At 12:58 PM 1/20/98 -0500, Eduardo Takahashi wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>We're having trouble with bidirectional traffic going between two
>machines connected with a 100baseTX link (znyx quadport adaptor).
>Somehow lots of packets are lost when packets go both ways. No
>problems are observed when traffic is only in one direction, or
>when one of the machines uses a diferent adaptor (tu driver).
>
>ifconfig shows something like this on both sides:
>
>de0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
>      address: 00:c0:95:e1:1c:d0
>      media: 100baseTX status: active
> supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP
>       inet 192.179.74.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.179.74.255
>
>We're running NetBSD 1.2D still. Has anyone seen something like
>this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Eduardo
>
>