i think it's a matter of what your switch is doing, what ips do your machines have? cos if they are on the same subnet as each other then if you have a switch then they should avoid the modem completely unless you have set each machine specifically to route all traffic via the modem! if you have a hub then i'm surprised this works at all unless you have static public ips for your machines from comcast in the same subnet as the modem, is your modem also perhaps a router? with maybe a private ip side interface and a public side interface?
i'm no network guy but i think these are relevant questions bascule On Saturday 02 Aug 2003 4:19 pm, Sevatio wrote: > Hardware Scenario: 2 PCs connected to a hub/switch and the hub/switch is > connected to a Comcast cable modem that is connected to the Comcast > Cable Internet system. > > Main Question: Is it possible to route things in a manner that enables > the 2 PCs to send data (via FTP or whatever) to each other at LAN speed > (10/100mbps)? What happens now is that the data transfer is limited to > Comcast's upstream limit (256kbps) because the packets are going out to > the internet and coming back to the other PC. How would I set this up > so that the data transfer rate is in the range of a local area network > (close to 100mbps) by routing the packets to go directly through the > hub/switch to the other PC? > > Side note: I noticed that 2 PCs running Windows w/ Netbeui and file > sharing, the data transfer is that of LAN speed. > > So what is Netbeui & Windows File Sharing doing that is allowing the LAN > speed connection between the 2 PCs and how can I get my 2 Linux boxes to > ftp to each other at LAN speed given the hardware scenario? > > Thanks, > Sevatio -- - "There's a door" - "Where does it go?" - "It stays where it is, I think." (Eric)
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