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On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 12:47:40 +1030, stephen white wrote: |
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> On 06/01/2004, at 7:15 AM, Kees de Bruin wrote: |
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>> Server: VIA EPIA 500MHz, 512Mb memory, 40Gb disk, VIA-Rhine and Realtek |
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>> 8139 network cards |
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>> Client: Intel P4, 1Gb memory, 80+120Gb disk, Realtek network card |
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> VIA-Rhine and Realtek are both crap. Something else to look at would be to |
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> make sure both are set to full or half duplex, not mismatched. |
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mii-tool shows no differences in settings on both client and server |
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except for flow control (?). The VIA-Rhine is an on-board device, the |
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Realtek from my old server (no problems at all). |
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> Symptoms of mismatched duplex is that you can ping or send small amounts |
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> of network traffic, but larger transfers (eg, FTP a file) choke. |
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mii-tool output: |
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client: eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok |
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server: eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok |
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So could this be a problem? |
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| | _ _| | |_ Kees de Bruin |
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| |/ / _ | _ \ e-mail: kees@×××××××.net |
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