From: "Dave Saville" Received: from mxout4.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.168] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 279456 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:50:48 -0400 Received: from mxin2.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.176]) by mxout4.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GAsCb-000BAQ-Je for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:50:46 -0400 Received: from mail.deezee.org.uk ([81.187.184.98] helo=pooh.deezee.org) by mxin2.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GAsCb-0006Mp-A1 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:50:45 -0400 Received: from paddington (brumas [81.187.184.100]) by pooh.deezee.org (Weasel v 1.72) for ; 09 Aug 2006 18:50:40 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:50:16 +0100 (BST) Reply-To: "Dave Saville" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.10.2010 for OS/2 Warp 4.05 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Timeout problem Message-ID: <0067840060.00000NUY@pooh.deezee.org> X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 19:25:21 +0200, Jeroen Besse wrote: >On 8/9/06, John Poltorak wrote: >> >> Apologies for another non-wireless problem, but it's about OS/2 networking >> so is partially on-topic... >> >> Can anyone suggest where I should look to discover how to deal with >> timeouts on a network connection? >> >> It appears between a DELL laptop which has a Broadcom chip and an IBM >> server using an IBM ethernet card. The IBM server is accessible from other >> systems but all those systems are limited to 10Mbps. Do I need to set the >> DELL to 10 Mbps or will it autoadjust? > >I'd say, don't do autoadjust. Some vendor NICs can't autoadjust when >the other side is some other vendor NIC. Don't know whether your 2 >NICs have this problem intercommunicating. >However, if the problem disappears when you set them both to the same >speed (for instance 10Mbps half duplex), you know you have this >problem. Then, either keep them at fixed speeds, or replace one of the >NICs. You don't say if these are connected through a hub/switch or with a Xover cable. If the latter and the NICs are set to auto negotiate, or even on older PCI cards with different types of connector on the same card and *that* detection is set to auto, nothing happening is common. The problem is both NICs are waiting for the *other* end to do something. -- Regards Dave Saville