I've looked through all the documentation I can find and haven't been able to find an answer to this one, so I'll throw it out here to see if anyone has any clues about it.
I have a 10Mbps link between two locations which is (supposedly) full duplex and is presented as a 10BaseT port at either end. The routers connected to each end have 3Com Vortex cards in them. In both cases, the card connected to the 10Mbps link reports a constantly increasing number in the "carrier" value in ifconfig. No other errors appear. The link passes traffic but not perfectly. The link itself is not flooded. Neither end of the link appears to support autonegotiation and both ends seem to identify themselves as "10BaseT-HD". However, setting the NICs to half duplex yields a much greater incidence of packet loss and log messages about a possible duplex mismatch. However, the "carrier" number stops increasing. Nailing the cards at 10BaseT-FD is apparently the correct configuration. I can confirm it's not the wire since that has been changed out without a noticeable change in the situation. My question for the group is this: what exactly does the "carrier" number mean when referring to a full duplex ethernet connection? Better yet, does this give me ammunition to beat up my provider in this case? -- William Astle finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further information Geek Code V3.12: GCS/M/S d- s+:+ !a C++ UL++++$ P++ L+++ !E W++ !N w--- !O !M PS PE V-- Y+ PGP t+@ 5++ X !R tv+@ b+++@ !DI D? G e++ h+ y?
