Try setting one box to 10baseT, and another to 100baseTX, and then copy the famous 17 meg file. Notice the "time remaining" line... For even more fun, play with the duplex settings.
The file will (eventually) copy, but the ethernet mismatch will result in many many many collisions that will slow the file transfer to a crawl. I've seen it happen, and the first 10.2.8 update made ethernet changes on my G4 1GB DP that resulted in similar behavior. I fixed it by resetting my speed and duplex settings.
The fix for me was to set my en0 to media autoselect, rather than the 100baseTW full-duplex that I had scripted it to. Drove me nuts for an hour first, though.
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Try setting one box to 10baseT, and another to 100baseTX, and then copy the famous 17 meg file. Notice the "time remaining" line... For even more fun, play with the duplex settings.
The file will (eventually) copy, but the ethernet mismatch will result in many many many collisions that will slow the file transfer to a crawl. I've seen it happen, and the first 10.2.8 update made ethernet changes on my G4 1GB DP that resulted in similar behavior. I fixed it by resetting my speed and duplex settings.
#ifconfig en0 media autoselect
that should do the trick. You can set the speed and duplex manually in the same way with:
#ifconfig en0 media media mediaopt media-option
Where media and media-option are, for example, 100baseTX and half-duplex. You can see the whole list of options when you type ifconfig.
The fix for me was to set my en0 to media autoselect, rather than the 100baseTW full-duplex that I had scripted it to. Drove me nuts for an hour first, though.