[SunHELP] Strange network problems

[Bran Tregare]

Um, when you say thin ethernet loop, you mean segment correct??? you don't 
really have the segment connected together as a loop, you have t's on the 
appropriate points and 50 ohm terminators at either end of the segment.... 
if you don't that is definately where your problem lies...


At 10:09 AM 9/5/01 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I wonder if you can help me with some strange network problems I've
>got at home.
>The network consists of two 10baseT hubs, connected by thin
>ethernet of approx. 25 meters.
>One PC and two suns live on one of the hubs, one PC is connected
>to the thin ethernet loop and another sun is connected to the other
>hub. I can ping all machines from all machines, but when I try to
>telnet from the PC on the one hub to the sun on the other hub, I have
>problems. Most of the times I am able to log in and get to the prompt
>and type a command, but when the command has to put out a lot of
>text (more than one line) I get no response.
>All the while, I can ping with no problem but when I use packets
>larger 55 bytes I start to get packet loss, packets of 60 bytes and
>more don't come through at all.
>
>I have tried exchanging the hubs, but that didn't seem to help.
>
>What might be the problem here?
>
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