Lousy Network Performance

[Kurt Wall]

On Wednesday 29 June 2005 01:27, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 06/28/2005 09:03 PM, Kurt Wall wrote:
[mumble]
> > I tried swapping cards and still have marginal performance. The current
> > cards are
> >
> > 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
> > 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
> > (rev 30)
>
> Are either of the cards sharing IRQs with anything else?

Yes, but that's never been a problem before. As it turns out, I narrowed
the problem down to the NIC in the *other* machine. I connected the
two NICs directly to the DSL modem and got the expected performance,
that is, decent ping time. But, when I connected the *other* machine 
directly to the DSL modem, I got the cruddy performance that started this
thread.

So, I'm going to disable the onboard NIC and try a replacement card and
see if that solves the problem.

Kurt