Lousy Network Performance

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:38:15PM -0400, Tim Wunder took 0 lines to write:
> On Monday 27 June 2005 10:56 pm, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote:
> > Hi, list,
> >
> > How do I go about solving a significant latency problem on my
> > internal network. I have two computers connected via a crossover
> > cable, eth1 on the "server" (luther) to eth0 on the "desktop"
> > (easter). Both cards are 10/100. Ping time is atrocious:
> >
> > From luther to easter:
> <snip>
> >
> > --- easter ping statistics ---
> > 10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9071ms
> > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.694/480.691/979.699/455.463 ms
> >
> > From easter to luther:
> <snip>
> >
> > --- luther ping statistics ---
> > 10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9002ms
> > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.418/597.109/1194.010/522.194 ms, pipe 3
> >
> > I can't see any reason why the latency should be so extreme.
Kurt
> >
> 
> I'd guess either one (or both) cards are (going) bad, or the crossover cable 
> is bad. 

New cards and cable. I tried going through a hub and using
straight-through cables and got the same results.

Kurt
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