On the windows box try running "netstat -e" from the command prompt. I can't test it right now, but I'm pretty sure that error counter will climb like crazy given a link speed/duplex mismatch. "netstat -s" will also show error statistics for icmp, tcp and udp.
-----Original Message----- From: Jason Stubbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Offtopic: Network switch driving me crazy. On Wednesday 05 November 2003 22:09, William Kenworthy wrote: > Is it stuck in 10M mode as realtek chips sometimes do (check > properties). > > Check out mii-diag at http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html if you can > boot it into linux using a livecd. There's prob a doze equivalent. Bill sounds like he's on the right track. The other possibility is duplex. Almost all recent switches will auto-sense duplex and link speed so it's surprising if yours doesn't. However, both of those will cause the symptoms that you've described elsewhere. Go for the link speed first as half/full duplex should have worked, albeit with a lot of link errors, when all the other computers were off. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
