Network Card Driving Miss Daisy

[ronnie gauthier]

That 8 port hub, is it a straight 10Mbps? That'll do it to ya every time.

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:54:09 -0700 - "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote
the following
Re: Re: Network Card Driving Miss Daisy

>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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