[Sunhelp] re: slow le0 on SPARC10

[Robert.Cross at scottish-newcastle.co.uk]

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I wrote:
>Hello, I've got a SPARCstation 10 here that I'm using for a bit of testing 
(e.g. kernel patches)
>and I've run into a funny problem with the integrated Ethernet. 
>Put simply inbound traffic, (ftp's to the box, or ftp-gets on the box itself), 
work fine, but outbound
>traffic is extremely slow, (e.g. 0.5Kbps!!).
>This system is dual processor, 128MB RAM, and Solaris 2.6 3/98 (with the 9th 
October patch cluster
>installed). I've checked the settings of the network port it's attached to and 
it checks out at 10/full-duplex.

I must have forgot to turn my brain on this morning - the solution to the 
problem is to switch the port
to *half duplex* ! (Smack - Doh!)

Sorry for the waste of electrons.

Robert


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