> You *must* do this. For full duplex you need a switch, a hub won't be > sufficient. ahh ok..didn't know that .
> What performance (in MB/s) are you getting? If that appears to be ok, don't > worry about the collisions. performance is suffering pretty bad..I don't know what the potential performance could be but my systems top out at about 2MB/s ..that is the absolute upper limit. with samba it is quite a bit slower. i ran a test and got about 550kb/s. This was going from a 7200RPM Ultra scsi drive to a 7200RPM IDE drive(both IBM) > What if you just connect the two computers with a crossover cable. This will > even allow full duplex (I believe, correct me someone if I'm wrong) I'll check that tonight, after i get home..i did have signal difficulties with my cables for a while, after cutting them in half and re crimping them it fixed that. thanks a lot nate