> and lots of TCP retransmissions (as seen in ethereal). The generalHello all!
I've got a Fedora Core 3 box running Samba 3.0.8. It serves a variety of roles, including mail server and samba server. The mail server is quite fast, but the smb server generates lots
> consensus is that this is new in the last few weeks. One user has
> been reporting speed problems for some time, but no metrics were ever gathered.
> small network, with two 100mbit hubs, and windows 2000 on all the clients.
I've tried replacing the NIC, but the problem follows. This is a
> put on the network never report dropped packets.
I want to suspect hardware, but flood pings from a linux box
All hosts are listed in DNS, and reverse DNS lookup is
> successful. I've also configured samba to pass WINS > requests on to DNS.
> with anything on the network except SMB-related TCP traffic.
I'm absolutely stumped. I don't see the retransmissions
I don't see anything peculiar in /var/log/messages or the smbd.log file. nmbd is running just fine.
Any assistance is greatly, greatly appreciated.
I'd like to thank everyone for the help with this problem. Replacing the two Ethernet hubs with a single Ethernet switch seems to have resolved the problem. The two hubs were actually hot to the touch
when I looked at them. I wouldn't have guessed that hardware would
affect just a single protocol, but it looks like only SMB was
chatty enough to overload the failing hubs.
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