On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 13:53, technomage wrote:
> ok,
> I took the last couple of days to troubleshoot this issue.
>
> its OS specific.
>
> Basically, the motherboard (an ECS Elitegroup k7vta3 pcb version 8.0) will not
> work properly with the lan in the following OS(s):
>
> 1. linux (any Flavor)
> 2. BSD (any flavor)
> 3. Sun OS for x86
>
> The board does work properly (and I get full 100BaseT capability on the built
> in lan) with windows 98, windows 2000 and windows XP.
>
> This appears to be the only issue (the built in lan). Just what the hell if
> going on around here?
>
>
> anyone have any clues as to how to correct this?
Sounds like this is more than a tuning issue, but this is a good chance
to share an excellent tuning guide with the list:
http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html
You might try turning these knobs a bit to see if you get _any_
improvement whatsoever.
...Kevin
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