At 05 September, 2003 Ernie Schroder wrote: > OK so I've been burned and am finally doing regular backups. There are > 6 boxes on the home LAN here and I had a 5 port 10/100 hub and a 10 > Base 8 port hub so at best 2 machines were stuck at a slower > connection. This didn't bother me much because there was never a > great deal of large files being passed. I just used the 8 port hub > cause the puppy chewed one of my patch cords. > This morning I went out and got a shiny new 10 port 10/100 switch. > So, after hooking it up, I did an scp of a stage-3 tarball from 1 > gentoo box to the other Throughput was 656 kb/sec,virtually the same > as with the10 Base hub. I restarted net.eth0 on both boxes and tried > again. This time, the throughput was 971 kb/sec or about 1.5 times as > fast. Should I expect more? both machines have 10/100 nics and the > switch shows connection at 100 Base. The boxes are both connected to > the hub with 6 foot cat5e patch cords. Is there some configuration > I'm missing do I need to reboot? :-( What kind of throughput do > others see on a similar setup?
If you're using SCP, then the machine's processing speed may be the bottleneck -- SCP introduces a *lot* of overhead for encryption and compression (regardless of whether the data is already compressed). You may want to try setting up an unencrypted connection -- rcp or http? to see what the actual capacity is like. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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