[Gllug] collisions and slowness

[Jim Bailey]

Hi,

I may well be talking windows but have you checked your network card it 
maybe faulty.  netatalk is not the greatest thing going, I believe that 
apple have kept some of the source code closed (I could be wrong).  If 
you are having lots of collisions it is going to effect netatalk 
adversely due to the way Mac clients communicate.  You could also try 
the following mailing list for support :

netatalk-admins at umich.edu

Some times they can help if it is a netatalk problem.

I don't know how much this is going to help you and as I am even newer 
to Macs than I am to Linux and this advise is probably bum.

Regards Jim

On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 01:39 PM, SteveC wrote:

>
> I have a Dell 220 here with a custom compiled kernel running apache,
> samba, netatalk, proftpd etc off of debian potato. Its damn slow, and I
> get tons of collisions on it. Taking netatalk off makes no difference.
> Putting another machine in its place gives good bandwidth / no 
> collisons.
> Any ideas?
>
>           EtherTalk Phase 2 addr:2/56
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:3924 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
>           TX packets:3236 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:240
>
> Only been up 4 minutes, and I have 240 collisions!
>
> have fun,
>
> SteveC steve at fractalus.com fractalus.com/steve stevecoast at hushmail.com
>
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