On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Jorgen Pehrson wrote:

: It's sitting on a *very* busy network segment and I constantly gets "le0:
: carrier lost" messages on the console. netstat -i shows a lot of output
: errors. I'm using the onboard coax board. Since everything around here is
: TP I've connected it to a Digital Single Port Repeater that converts it to
: TP via an transceiver. Is the DECStation5k/200 to slow to cope with the
: traffic or do I have some sort of hardware error? What do you think?

I'd hazard a guess that you're getting lots and lots of collisions on that
coax wire if it's as busy as you imply (and you're connected to a hub, not a
switch).  TP can run far more data without major incident than coax,
especially if the TP is running full-duplex.  Coax is half-duplex by nature.

If you're connected to a hub, I'd suggest getting a real 10BT transceiver
and plugging it into the AUI port, if there is one (should there be?).  A
TP<->coax converter can cause everyone else to have more sluggish network
access, too.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)