My guess would be that the FullDuplex setting of either server or client is wrong. When using crossover cables, there is as far as I remember no mechanism to correctly autonegotiate FD. So check your packet driver if you can set this manually. When using FD, collision detection is disabled, so this could be the cause of the errors - check the server's ifconfig-stats ! >Back to back problems occured for me when I made my own cable and >made the mistake of mixing the twisted pairs for receive and transmit. >Some of the packets made it and some did not. Very wierd. I made a >another cable and was sure to keep the receive and transmit >pairs separate and had no more trouble with lost packets. > >Andrew Coulthurst wrote: >> >> Questions. >> >> 1. Does the card perform flawlessly from an O.S. ? >> Try doing an ftp and see if you get acceptable transfer rates. >> ( As an example I usually get about 4-8Mbytes a second ). >> >> 2. Are you using a 100 hub - or are you using a back to back cable. >> Only asking because I've had terrible problems with back to back. >> >> 3. Are you using the latest tftpd ? >> >> 4. Is the network heavily loaded ? >> >> 5. Is the server upto the job in hand ? >> >> As a final ( but useless comment ) it works okay for me with the same >> network card as you - indeed I can download a 400k kernel + 2.5Mbyte >> ramdisk and boot to a linux prompt in about 6 seconds on a 486AMD133 >> client. ( Most time spent uncompressing the Ramdisk ) >> >> But in conclusion all I can say is that it looks like the client is >> timing out. ( Actually tftp is a little notorious for this - but I don't >> think it should be as bad as your information suggests ). >> >> Andy. >> >> Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah wrote: >> > >> > Hi: >> > >> > I'm using netboot on floppy for Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B NIC card. It >> > works, but it takes very long to boot as a result of transmission errors. >> > Here's some example of the trsansmission transcript: >> > >> > Block 19 Image 4: Start=90200, End=9A000 >> > Block 21 TFTP: Block 21 != 22 >> > Block 32 TFTP: Block 32 != 33 >> > . >> > . >> > . >> > >> > And so on. What could be the problem? >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > Napi
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