Hello David,

Monday, March 11, 2002, 2:08:49 AM, you wrote:

DG>   Note, though, that this could be a misleading message.  And the
DG> requirement that the cable be plugged in suggests that such a
DG> connector *may* actually be required in order to run a loopback test.
DG> (The card may see some signals when the cable is connected that
DG> convine it that there *might* be a loopback connector installed.)
The test passed when the network was working regardless of cable
connections.

DG>   Do these cards have LEDs which display the link status?  Which ones
DG> are on and which off?
Status LED is on on both cards when cable is connected and both PCs
are on. With advanced test [supposedly, cards connect and send test
packets to each other and I can see totals of sent/received/dropped/
mis-sequenced/other error conditions], link speed is reported as 100
Mbit/s but one of the cards is not receiving test packets. No errors
reported, though.

With the other cable, one of the cards doesn't receive and I also get
a lot (over 30%) of bad packets on the card that is receiving something.


I'll just get another NIC and try to eliminate the bad card. Those
cards are cheap [$10], I simply wanted to get a better understanding of
the problem I'm having here...

Yours,

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