[OT] Windows 2003 vs Knoppix

[David A. Bandel]

Regurgitating the prose of Alma J Wetzker Alma J Wetzker
<almaw at ieee.org> on Thu, 12 May 2005 12:20:31 -0500:

|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.
|> 
|> Beyond that, it's sniffer time.
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|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.

FWIW, I've seen the same thing with _any_ version of Linux and Windoze
(version doesn't seem to matter).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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