[eepro100] Performance prob. (again)

[Arthur Rinkel]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Donald Becker wrote:

> > One cable is actually homebrew, but another is, say, really manufactured,
> > so that one can be expected to be OK. This manufactured cable has been
> > used for 10Mb ethernet for 5 years or so and I've never had any problems
> > with it.
> Cables made for 10baseT are not necessarily suitable for 100baseTx.
> 10baseT works on anything, sometimes even untwisted and mispaired
> cables, while 100baseTx requires CAT5 with proper pairing.
Sorry, for not mentioning it, but both cable are CAT5 and they're about
10m in length.
Furthermore, the NIC is second hand, I think, but it passes the tests when
the driver is being loaded.

Anyway, I'll try to find other things to test (eg. faster system).

Grtz, Arthur