On 08/10/02 16:16 +0530, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: <snip> > Okay, lspci shows it as a realtek 8139. Your above instructions worked > just peachy. Thanks. Sucks. That card just doesn't perform under load (which you will probably never reach).
> This is the output of dmesg | grep eth0 > --------------------------- > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc3855000, 00:e0:4c:e8:71:c0, IRQ > 9 > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' > eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. > -------------------------- > > what's with the half duplex bit up there ? Does it mean that the card will > run at half speed ?? Duplex is the transmission mode. Half duplex means that only one channel will be active at any time, either recieving or transmitting. Full duplex means that you will get simultaneous transmission and reception of signals. Full duplex is generally faster, but has some limitations under heavily loaded networks (packet loss isn't detected that readily at the ethernet layer). Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
