brendan@illyria.wpd.sgi.com (Brendan Eich) (05/25/91)
In article <106109@sgi.sgi.com>, vjs@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