Network Card Driving Miss Daisy

[Net Llama!]

On 08/24/03 16:48, James McDonald wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I have a small home network with the following setup.
> 
>                   8port Switch
> <RH9 8139too NIC>---<10/100>---<VIA Embedded NIC WinXP>
> 
> I have absolutely hopeless data transfer both ways using samba and ftp. I 
> can only get approx ~2.6MB/s max on a good day.
> 
> running ethtool on the RH9 box shows that it is running at 100MB/s Full
> Duplex autoneg and the same on the Windows XP box. Setting both to 100MB/s
> FD doesn't help.
> 
> Any suggestions why it's so damn slow or how to trouble-shoot the issue?

Any packet loss?  Any errors in ifconfig output?  Anything showing up in 
dmesg or messages?  What does 'mii-tool eth0' show?


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