100Mbit Ethernet Notes
By: Richard Glaser - Revised: 2006-06-07 devinMost if not all of this is unconfirmed...
- Apple's Zynx card (aka Apple 10/100) 100Mbit card has been reported (but not confirmed) to not work at Full Duplex, but will report that it can. This can result in terrible performance. Force your switch/hub to half duplex for any computer that is using this card.
- Several people have reported that Cisco Switches work much better if you turn off spanning trees which is on by default.
- Unconfirmed from Asante
- Three extensions seem to interfere with the connection on the b/w g3s but not necessarily other g3s or g4s, although the folks at Asante suggested I scrub them on all machines. They are: DNSplugin, SLPplugin & WebSharing.
- If you have an aftermarket ethernet card, you should also disable the Apple Enet extension.
- If you are using Asante cards, be absolutely sure you have the latest driver.
- Another unconfirmed report. Try moving your ethernet card to a different PCI slot like A1. Apparantly some customers have reported that this has fixed their problems.