On January 30, 2006 08:47 pm, Bill Reid wrote this amazing epistle:
Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
Following Bills suggestion to compare the results of ifconfig with ipconfig and winipfcg under M$ I found more information available under Linux. I
Mike, I am sorry, I gave you the wrong command. The Window's command in a DOS prompt Window is
netstat -e
It worked. I was going to post a copy of the results. M$ ran out of memory (on a 768MB machine, I'd like to know how) and wouldn't open a DOS Window. After a reset, the stats were reset as well. An hour into the process, before it ran out of RAM, it showed no errors.
It gives the Ethernet stats: errors, discards, etc.
looked at the info for the network card in the M$ drivers. It was set up for half duplex under M$ (I changed it to full). I don't know if the software would affect hardware settings at this point. If I change it under M$ would it change under Linux?
No.
I tried the card in full duplex. For a single file it said it would take a day and a half (pretty much like the speeds I am getting under Linux). Netstat didn't show any errors. There were a total of 39 discarded packets. I switched it back to half duplex and it was much happier. I started four download threads. When I started the first it said the estimated time for transfer was six minutes. After the fourth was started it increased the time to an hour. Now I know to do one file at a time under M$. There are more files to transfer tomorrow. I'll make sure I keep a DOS window open.
Right now I'm backing up my fathers M$ box to the Mac. For an old piece of hardware it is quite robust. Apparently OS X 10.3.X and newer resolve most of the problems of crashing. Lots of little annoying things but nothing major.
-- Bill
Later Mike
P.S. For a laugh, check out the current issue of the magazine (link is below - it's free again). One article describes the result of a grandmother connecting to DSL. Even if you don't want to read the article, check out the title and the first couple of paragraphs. ;-)