Re: [Samba] excessive TCP retransmissions with samba 3.0, slow file opening RESOLVED

2005-05-21 Thread AragonX
quote who=Jeremy Anderson Yeah, SMB is so blame chatty, and so impatient, that it just cacks on a hub. I'd never have believed it before, but when they can get a 24-port 10/100 DLink switch for $91 from newegg (shipped!), why mess around with technician time? At typical consultant bill

Re: [Samba] excessive TCP retransmissions with samba 3.0, slow file opening RESOLVED

2005-05-19 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Jeremy Anderson wrote: Hello 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 and lots of TCP retransmissions (as seen in ethereal). The general consensus

Re: [Samba] excessive TCP retransmissions with samba 3.0, slow file opening RESOLVED

2005-05-19 Thread John H Terpstra
On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:53, Jeremy Anderson wrote: 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

Re: [Samba] excessive TCP retransmissions with samba 3.0, slow file opening RESOLVED

2005-05-19 Thread Eric Wood
- Original Message - From: John H Terpstra On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:53, Jeremy Anderson wrote: 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

Re: [Samba] excessive TCP retransmissions with samba 3.0, slow file opening RESOLVED

2005-05-19 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Eric Wood wrote: I have followed this thread and believe I'm suffering from the same problem. File copying is terribly slow on one of my customers networks. The 8-port hub (which is plugged into a larger network switch) is a no-name piece of junk. However is worked fine when only network