AsanteFast 690 10/100

[Mark Walker]

When using Ethernet if any part of the plant, card, patch cable, ACO, or hu=
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does not work at a specified speed (100mb) it will step down to 10mb.  A
typical case if the patch cable is not constructed to standard (TIA 568A or
568B) to run at 100mb the the system will step down to 10mb.
Since it is an incremental increase by a factor of 10 it will not run at
11-99mb, but 10 or 100 only.
I'm only guessing, but because you have a 10mb card in their same system it
will only run at 10mb on any other card in that box or on the same network.
This is seen on LANs where one part is causing the whole to run at 10mb.
More times than not it is a patch cable or other part of the cabling causin=
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the problem.

> So I have installed the card and the system recognizes it. My network
> setup is this, for web/email/ftp/dns servers I want them using the eth0
> interface and my file services (netatalk) using the new card on eth1.
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> PowerMac 8500/180
> eth0 (internal network interface @10bT)->    172.16.0.2 =3D web/email/ftp/d=
ns
> eth1 (Asante 10/100)    ->    172.16.0.8 =3D file (netatalk)
> Default Gateway ->    eth0 172.16.0.1 (router)
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> Now I've added the interface in my network config, and made the same
> changes to my netatalk config files and two things are happening.
> First, when I look at the activity on my switch, it seems to be using
> both interfaces eth0 & eth1. Secondly, it's really slow. Instead of
> transferring data at 100mps it seems to be doing it at 10mps or slower.
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> I'm running YDL 2.1 with 2.4.10 kernel. Is this a problem with the
> driver the card is using? If I upgrade the system to YDL 2.3 will it
> resolve my problems?
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> Thanks!
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