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From: cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris G. Sylvain)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Ethernet math (Was Re: MWC's Coherent - A Lemon...)
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Date: 30 May 90 01:55:36 GMT
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Reply-To: cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris G. Sylvain)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <2871@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
> [...]  The best throughput I've seen on that wire was 4 Mbit per second.
> You tell me why it was dropping packets like crazy. [...]

Let's begin with a simple reason before we blame the I/O chips or the network
protocol:

The interface cards you were using were terminated ON THE CARD, but you went
and added a T-connector and a terminating resistor anyway.

Don't laugh, I've seen it happen more times than would be funny.
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