Hi Jeff,
I try to use 2 Netgear FA310TX cards with an older Cat.5 crossover
cable, but it doesn't work.
The cable works reliable with 2 ne2k-pci cards.
I suspect the problem are caused by a shared PCI interrupt: my old
ne2k-pci card & the netgear card share irq 9.
computer 1:
not shared irq, UP
computer 2:
shared irq, SMP, APIC
it seems that computer 1 sends & receives packets properly, computer 2
sends properly, but it receives the packets "in blocks", sometimes 30
seconds after computer 1 send the packet.
[I use "tcpdump -i eth1 -n" to compare both computers]
It's also possible that the cable is bad. Can I downgrade to half duplex
or 10 Mbit? I tried
insmod tulip full_duplex=0
it still switches to full duplex.
Any ideas now I can fix these problems?
Thanks,
Manfred
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