et0: transmit: no carrier messages to console?
Brendan Eich
brendan at illyria.wpd.sgi.com
Sat May 25 09:04:53 AEST 1991
In article <106109 at sgi.sgi.com>, vjs at rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
>
> "no carrier" usually means the ethernet cable is not connected or loose.
>
> "late collision" means a long packet suffered a collision after the 1st
> 64 bytes, which in turn means that your ethernet is mis-configured.
> A late collision means the distance between distant parts of the
> network is more than 64-byte times. The most common error is
> using excessively long drop cables. With at least some twisted
> pair transceivers, you're limited to 10 or 20 feet. It is also
> easy to break thick net by using three or more 75 meter
> drop cables.
By the way, ethernet(7) describes these and other error messages. In 4.0,
the "no carrier" message reads "no carrier: check Ethernet cable".
/be
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