Max Klohn wrote:
> I am running a test install with Red Hat 5.2 (just upgraded from 5.1,
> with kernel 2.0.36-2) in a box, and w98 in the other.
> The machines are reasonably fast (one PII 266 and one K6-300) and have
> plenty of RAM
> The netcards are AMD PC-NET32 PCI clones, cabling is 10base-2 (coaxial)
> thin ethernet.
> No errors reported by /sbin/ifconfig or seen in /proc/net/dev. MTU
> defaults at 3584 for eth0
The MTU for an ethernet interface should be 1500.
> dns works, ping works, ftp works and so on. No connexion errors
> anywhere.
> samba server is 2.0.0-1
> ftp server is 2.4.2b18-2
>
> when I download a file from the win98 machine (with smbclient) I get
> over 600 kb/s transfer speed
>
> BUT
> when I download a file from the linux box, either thru ftp or thru the
> samba server, transfer speeds topple at a miserable 28 kb/s in both
> cases.
> I have _not_ been fiddling with the new "shaper" tool they provide for
> limiting bandwidth.
>
> Any idea about what is going on? I have seen several postings on
> asymmetric performance and shortcomings on the linux server side, but no
> clear answer came out of that
If you can't find anything obvious, try using tcpdump to see what is
actually happening on the wire.
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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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