>
> I mention duplex as a suspect as mismatches cause these sorts of
> issues, but also half-duplex means collisions of data (especially
> when there is high data throughput on that interface) which can
> lead to the symptoms. ifconfig on most OSes should tell you what
> speed has been negotiated (or mii-tool on linux boxes, Solaris is
> a bit more complicated take a look at:
> Also netstat -ni will give you interface stats about errors and collisions.
netstat -ni
Kernel Interface table
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0 1500 0 6878700 1 2 1 9446139 0 0
20 BMRU
lo 16436 0 130907 0 0 0 130907 0 0 0 LRU
tun0 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 MOPRU
IFCONFIG ETH0:
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7451052 errors:1 dropped:2 overruns:1 frame:0
TX packets:10181911 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:20 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1202518324 (1.1 GiB) TX bytes:4175310627 (3.8 GiB)
Interrupt:225 Base address:0xd000
