[OT] Windows 2003 vs Knoppix

[Alma J Wetzker]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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> Man-wai Chang wrote:
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>>>Maybe the NIC negotiation is wrong (half/full duplex)?
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>>Already set to BNC half-duplex. It's an old coaxial cable LAN.
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> At first I thought you were kidding along with the rest of us. Since
> you're serious, what are the statistics on either machine's NIC's?
> What does the collision count look like? Are other systems seeing the
> issue with this server or just this one? Might you have a bad
> terminator or bad T? What about server usage? If it's the
> workstation having the issue, check for spyware, worm, or other
> malware which could flood the network with bad traffic.
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> Beyond that, it's sniffer time.

No, IIRC this is the identical box, boot with knoppix, it runs 0.6 ms,
boot with windoze 2003, it runs 20 ms.  Somewhere, deep in the bowels of
Windoze, there lurks a pile of smelly stuff that introduces a 40 fold
slowdown.  I thought that M$ stuff used the Berkley IP stack.  It did
read, recently, that WinXP does not implement the full IP stack, does
that apply to 2003?  It sounds like it must be in the difference between
the two OS's, I am no longer familiar enough with current M$ stuff to
know what the problem might be.

    -- Alma