Thanks to everyone who has replied so far, just a little bit more
information:-
The switch & the card are both set to 10Mb half duplex (one of the first
things I checked!) and that's the best the card can do. The switch by the
way is a cabletron smartswitch 2200.
The system is plugged directly into the switch (not going through any
patching) with a 5m cat 5 patch cable (2 different ones have been tried)
At the moment the 200 4/100 has 2 PCI Scsi cards in it, which occupy both
PCI slots so adding another ethernet card is kinda tricky :(
The KZPCM-PA (dual scsi + ethernet) cards aren't supported on this
platform...
It's got me stumped....
Regards,
Jonathan
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Jonathan Nicholson wrote:
>
> Our FTP server is running on a fairly old piece of kit, a 200 4/100.
>
> This has a built in 10Mb ethernet card, connected to a switch.
>
> This system is seeing a large number of collisions (anywhere up to
> 50%) under even small loads (~300 packets/s).
>
> We've changed:-
>
> * The system
> * The cable
> * The switch port
> * The switch
>
> with no luck!
>
> The system is running 4.0F with patch kit 2, with the Wustl FTP daemon
> version 2.5.
>
> Any help appreciated...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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= Email: jjn_at_sanger.ac.uk -=- Tel: 01223 834244 x4987 -=- Fax: 01223 494919 =
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