Hi Jonas, I would start of by looking at your cabling and port on the switch (I hope you have a switch and not a hub). Alignment Errors contain partial octets and fail the FCS check. So this means that you should also be receiving CRC errors or FCS errors. Both Alignment Errors and FCS Errors can be caused by equipment powering up/down or by noise on unshielded twisted-pair (10BASE-T) segments. If you have a high percentage of CRC Errors with regards to transmits, it could indicate a poor quality cable. If you have a high amount of Alignment Errors it more than likely is a speed mismatch. Check the speed of the port on the switch and all devices connected to that segment. Hope this helps! Thanks, Mario Puras JNCIS, CCNA, LSCP, MCP SoluNet Technical Support Customer Support Engineer We don't make network products, we make them Work! * Mailto:mpuras at solunet.com * 888.449.5766 (USA) / 888.SOLUNET (Canada) -----Original Message----- From: Jonas Back [mailto:jonas.back at pi.se] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 5:26 PM To: 'ascend' Subject: (ASCEND) DSLMAX20 and bad ethernet packets Hi, I'm having problems with our DSLMAX20. It drops packets on the Ethernet and the switch it's connected to shows alignment errors. We also have Linux machine connected to the network on the ethernet side and the Linux machine report CRC errors on packets recieved from the DSLMAX. Anyone noticed this or have any ideas on how to fix it?! It seems like the box sends out bad packets because we have tried almost anything to eliminate the half/full duplex problem.. Btw, we have two DSLMAX20 and both of them have the same problem. Regards, Jonas Back Cable & Wireless - Sweden http://www.cw.com/se ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com Archives: http://www.nexial.com/mailinglists/ ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com Archives: http://www.nexial.com/mailinglists/