[PLUG] Re: Slowest Full duplex 100MB in the west

[Michael Rasmussen]

Wil Cooley wrote:
> > At work I've seen this frequently when a client can't support the
> > full duplex.  We'll see sky high error counts on the port. 
> >
> > Forcing the client to 100/half solves the problem and dramatically
> > increase throughput.
> 
> You can, of course, try forcing it to full too :) 

We, of course, did.  The chipset in Compaq Evo computers doesn't 
reliably support 100/Full.  Where "reliably" means some Evos connected
to Cisco switches will suffer severe performance degredation when
configured for 100/Full.  

> from admins of larger Ethernet networks to generally fix the speed and
> duplexity servers and such

I fully agree with this statement. 


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