[TriLUG] Ethernet Question

[Jason Tower]

could a media negotiation mismatch.  ie, one end thinks it's 
full-duplex, the other thinks it's half duplex.  mii-tool should tell you:

root at t42p:~# mii-tool eth0
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok


Steve Kuekes wrote:
> I'm having a strange problem on my home ethernet.
> 
> I have two linux systems that are connected via a 10/100 hub, a linux 
> workstation and a linux server, both running slightly different versions 
> of Mandrake 10.0.
> 
> When I do a sftp get from the server to the workstation for a large file 
> (like an iso image) I get about 170kb/sec throughput (as indicated by 
> sftp).  When I do a sftp put from the workstation to the server I get 
> 500kb/sec.  And a get of the same file takes much longer than a put of 
> the same file.  I've also noticed this performance problem reading from 
> the linux server using a Windows/Samba connection and using a linux 
> client using NFS.  Writing data is fast, but reading is slow.
> 
> Any ideas on where to look for this problem?