ping problems with Linksys

Lee Bradshaw lee@sectionIV.com
Mon Oct 11 20:16:20 1999


On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:33:41PM -0700, Omar wrote:
> 
> Anyone using the tulip driver with the new Linksys 10/100 Etherfast PCI 
> cards???
> 
> I've noticed something odd lately....first, the driver 0.91G doesn't seem 
> to work in 100Mbit mode...and lately I've noticed that randomly the 
> performance drops....I just tried pinging it and i'm getting 60% packet 
> loss....but if i ping other computers on the network i get no loss!!! so it 
> must be something wrong with that card or the driver!

I asked about that last week. With the version 2.0 lne100tx, I could
only get 10Mbps mode working. I'm using the "tulip.c:v0.91 4/14/99"
driver version.

I ordered 25 of the older cards. That should handle my needs in the
machine room until we hire a sysadmin.

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Alantro Communications       lee@alantro.com