I took the ThinkPad to work and the ThinkPad had no such problems with the NT.

At home, now have 3 machines on the LAN:

GUS is the NetBSD tower. ThinkPad is the NetBSD laptop. Solo is the Win98 
laptop. ThinkPad and Solo both have identical PCMCIA LAN cards: Lynksis 
EtherFast 10/100 PC. Test file for ftp is rsync-2.4.6.tar.gz Here are the
times:

Solo does get from ThinkPad = 7.32KBytes/sec
Solo does put to Thinkpad = 606.33Kbytes/sec

Solo does get from GUS = 7.39Kbytes/sec
Solo does put to GUS = 877.58Kbytes/sec

ThinkPad does get from GUS = 28.12 KB/s
ThinkPad does put to GUS = 1.24 MB/s (thats Mega!)

GUS does get from ThinkPad = 488.51 KB/s
GUS does put to ThinkPad = 6.13 KB/s

I don't know how to get an FTP daemon running on the Solo, 
so I don't have any "get from" or "put to" the Solo. At
work, to test the ThinkPad against the NT, I had to call
up Exceed and get the Hummingbird "inetd" service for ftp
running.

The Tower GUS will not accept this...

# ifconfig fxp0 mediaopt half-duplex

...but it will accept...

# ifconfig fxp0 mediaopt full-duplex.

...and if I do this...

# ifconfig fxp0 media 100BaseTX

...the "full duplex" report for "ifconfig fxp0" disappears. And
then it will go slowest of all, down around 2 KB/s. When I put it
back like this...

# ifconfig fxp0 media 100BaseTX mediaopt full-duplex

...it gets to doing like before, as described previously. All the
while, the FDX (assume to mean Full DupleX) lights stay lit green
on the Ethernet switch. The 100 (versus 10) lights stay green all
the while too. The "collision" yellow LED's do not ever light up on the 
switch.

Clues?

Gan Starling
Kalamazoo MI USA



On Tuesday 02 October 2001 16:51, you wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 06:22:32AM -0400, Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
> > Manuel,
> >
> > Yes, quite certain that it is a switch. It is a "Netgear 5-port Fast
> > Ethernet Switch -- model FS105". Have green lights for 100M (no light for
> > 10M) and also green lights for FDX (no yellow for collision). I've been
> > keeping one eye glued to those lights ever since I bought the thing. The
> > only difference in the alternate ftp exchange is the rate at which they
> > blink on/off (never yellow). And only the 100M lights ever blink. Never
> > do the FDX lights blink.
>
> OK, and did you check for a possible duplex mismatch ?
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> --