Followup - Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
NiftyClusters Mitch wrote: Good list: Also add multiple runs of "traceroute" and also try ping, ping -f , ping -A and ping -R. See also ping6 If routes are dynamic we have one answer to the problem, I would expect traceroute to have 'one' answer on a simple net. If packets are falling on the

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
Good list: Also add multiple runs of "traceroute" and also try ping, ping -f , ping -A and ping -R. See also ping6 If routes are dynamic we have one answer to the problem, I would expect traceroute to have 'one' answer on a simple net. If packets are falling on the floor then we need to know why.

Re: Resolved - Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread nate
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > AH, that's the ticket. > > ping times to 1 hop hoss >1ms > > Thank you very much! Sure thing, I guess that's just another data point that Realtek chipsets aren't the best thing to be using these days, seems flaky. glad it was an easy fix(this time..). nate ___

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: That covers speed, but doesn't say anything about the duplex setting. You should see this mentioned near the Ethernet driver load lines in dmesg, too. Do you see anything in the lines I pasted above? Those are the only ones from dmesg.

Resolved - Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
nate wrote: nate wrote: One thing to try, shut down the network interfaces (/etc/init.d/network stop), I noticed this which seems to be kinda-sorta-maybe related to what you are experiencing: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-network/+bug/35683 The suggestion is to boot

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Robert Moskowitz wrote: That covers speed, but doesn't say anything about the duplex setting. You should see this mentioned near the Ethernet driver load lines in dmesg, too. Do you see anything in the lines I pasted above? Those are the only ones from dmesg. try: ethtool eth0 this will

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread nate
nate wrote: > One thing to try, shut down the network interfaces (/etc/init.d/network > stop), I noticed this which seems to be kinda-sorta-maybe related to what you are experiencing: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-network/+bug/35683 The suggestion is to boot with the option pci

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread nate
Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> grep eth0 /etc/modprobe.conf > > Good card: alias eth0 e100 > > Bad card: alias eth1 8139too [..] > 8139cp :00:0e.0: Try the "8139too" driver instead. > input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2 > 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 There seems to be a conflict here,

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
nate wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Intel the first time, DLink (Realtek) currently. Both 10/100Mb There's a lot of different Realtek chips out there, can you send the output of lspci -v (and capture the network card only since it spits out a lot of output). I've heard lots of bad thi

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Warren Young wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I get pings around 60ms. Pings within the same LAN? If so, that's slow even for 100BaseT. It should be under 10 ms. Well, perhaps I did not test everything out with the good card. MIght have been doing only 2 hop tests. But with the bad one, it

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread nate
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Intel the first time, DLink (Realtek) currently. Both 10/100Mb There's a lot of different Realtek chips out there, can you send the output of lspci -v (and capture the network card only since it spits out a lot of output). I've heard lots of bad things over the years abo

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Warren Young
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I get pings around 60ms. Pings within the same LAN? If so, that's slow even for 100BaseT. It should be under 10 ms. When I switch the cards around, the addon card attached to my network, I get pings that alternate with one being ~1488ms and the next 488ms! This i

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
nate wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Any Idea where I should look to fix this? - What version of CentOS? 5.2 - What type of network card? Intel the first time, DLink (Realtek) currently. Both 10/100Mb - What driver is it using? How do I tell? - What type of device

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread nate
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Any Idea where I should look to fix this? - What version of CentOS? - What type of network card? - What driver is it using? - What type of device is on the other end of the network card?(Switch, hub, router etc) - Can you verify that the speed and duplex settings match

[CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am attempting to build an IPv4/IPv6 router. I have put a 2nd ethernet card in a box. I have one Ethernet card attached to my network and the other to a switch with nothing else there just so the link comes up for testing. When I have the built-in Ethernet attached to my network, I get ping