On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > 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?
Do you have mii-tool installed? You can use it to view the connection speed, and restart negotiation. The speed is on the physical level, and won't be affected by restarting net.eth0. I would hope the card would re-negotiate with the new switch, but it might not. You can force it with mii-tool. Also, both card and switch should display what speed (10 or 100) it believes it is connecting at. As far as measuring bandwidth, there's a program called 'bing' (which is not in portage) which will determine the available bandwidth between two points. I'm sure there's many good programs in net-analyzer as well which do things like that. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
