[TriLUG] Ethernet Question

[Shane O'Donnell]

Also, check the stats provided by ifconfig and see if there are a lot
of collisions or errors on TX or RX.

Shane O.

On 1/6/06, Jason Tower <jason at cerient.net> wrote:
> 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?
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