The embarrasing truth: [tpop3d-discuss] Re: tpop3d on Mac OS X

[Gerben Wierda]

On Monday, July 22, 2002, at 10:37 , Gerben Wierda wrote:

> OOPS! I just remember something. I have to look at this tomorrow, so 
> forget about it temporarily and I'll report back later...

Embarrasing:

The reason for this behaviour was the ethernet cable. Between both 
machines there was an inexpertly wired cable (both ends did have 
identical connections, but the wrong colors were in the wrong places. 
The result of this is that the cable (which is rather long) works at 
10mbps, but recently I upgraded to a 100mbps network and the cable has 
become unreliable because of crossover noise because not the right 
channels are 'twisted' together.

You expect cables either to work or not to work. It seemed to work, but 
under heavy load it did not work. Hence, communication went fine (single 
ethernet packets probably) until a message was sent by tpop3d.

More embarrassing:

When I wrote OOPS yesterday, I suddenly recalled that I had realized 
this a while back but I did not get arond to fixing it in the past, 
instead I had put the machine temporarily back on a 10mbps hub. As the 
machine wasn't used for a while, I reattached it yesterday to the 
100mbps and it seemed to work fine. I must be getting old.

G