On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 11:21 -0600, David G. Miller wrote: > I guess next thing is to try a different NIC in the workstation and > see if its the NIC. The NICs were surplussed to me from where I used > to work so I can't complain too much if I have trouble with them. > They probably wouldn't have gotten rid of them unless there was a > reason. Even "good" ones don't always work well for someone else. They might work well with Windows drivers, but not Linux, or vice versa. I have an issue with one of mine that way. On a dual-boot box, it's rather painful in one direction between Windows and Linux. But if I reboot that box to Linux, it works fine between itself and another Linux box. Go figure... (Yes, I'd checked through the duplex options in both OSs.) > BTW, gigabit uses all four wire pairs in the cable. Yep, as I said, "two pairs in each direction" (that's four pairs in one cable). -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
