ping problems with Linksys

Omar omar@natasha.org
Mon Oct 11 22:54:38 1999


At 08:15 PM 10/11/99 -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
>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.


I just joined the list the other day so I didn't see your question earlier 
. Thanks for the responses.
I'll try it out!