Thanks Neil, I will definitely test something out in this direction, share later.
Clive ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Herber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SIMS Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 8:32 PM Subject: Re: Large email size + old 10Base Hub = funny reaction from SIMS? > It is rumored that on or about 2002-07-17 5:15 PM +0800, Clive Chan > wrote as follows: > >This time, I went straight to restart the OLD 10 BASE HUB and again, > >everything was back to normal and they both can downlaod the large emails > >fine, just like that, I didn't even have to restart my SIMS server. Actualy > >later I found there were a third person recieved this monster email, but she > >got lucky, nothing went wrong with her account. > > Clive > > This sounds like an auto-negotiation problem on either your 10/100 > hub/switch (not sure what you have) or on one or more of the client > 10/100 NICs. I am willing to bet that the person who got the large > mail without problem has a 10 Mbit/s (no 100 Mbit/s) card or a card > that doesn't auto-negotiate. > > If you have 100 Base-T everywhere, see if you can turn off > auto-negotiation and set them all to 100 Mbit/s. Apple used to have a > utility available that turned off auto-negotiation on built-in NICs. > Can't remember the name, but the TIL may mention it. > > -- > Neil > > Neil Herber, RGD > Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/ > Eton Systems, 15 Pinepoint Drive, Nepean, ON, Canada K2H 6B1 > Tel: (613) 829-4668 > > > ############################################################# > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
