That isn't the problem. I believe that USB 1.1 NIC's choke when they have multiple connections. I guess the "Rx polling" - whatever that is - causes so many interrupts that the NIC stops serving requests
friends on server-devel, I highly recommend you use the "lsusb -v" to find out if your usb NIC is actually USB 2.0. Apparently a number of USB NIC's on the market are advertised as USB 2.0 but are actually 1.1 On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 14:08 +0545, Ties Stuij wrote: > So Tony suggested just using the usb-ethernet thingies for the > internet-connection. USB1.1 is, what, 700kbps? What are the chances > that we can supply the schools with more bandwidth than that? > > /Ties > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Martin Langhoff > <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Bryan Berry <br...@olenepal.org> wrote: > >> The ever helpful cjb and Mitch_Bradley directed me to the root of the > >> problem, the USB-ethernet devices I am using are USB 1.1 which has > >> horrible throughput. A USB-ethernet device that supports USB 2.0 should > >> fix the problem. > > > > That's great news! I'll also be delighted to hear about what hw you > > find that works... > > > > cheers, > > > > > > m > > -- > > martin.langh...@gmail.com > > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > > - ask interesting questions > > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > > _______________________________________________ > > Server-devel mailing list > > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > > -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel