> > Part of that may be due to the fact the the sending end is a 120 Mhz 5x86
> > machine. The motherboard there is about four or five years old.
>
> Ok having a PCI NE2K card accounts for that part of it. I don't know what
> card tests you've done but the first obvious question. If you send a lot
> of data the other direction do the error counts also swap over (ie tx still
> sees carrier)
>
Transfers from the NE2K machine to the Tulip machine go at about 100KBps
with carrier still reading 0 on the NE2K, from the Tulip machine to the
NE2K machine they crawl with carrier growing steadily on the Tulip.
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