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From: dexter <dexters84@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Slow network performance
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:15:53
Message-Id: 4751A381.3000900@gmail.com
1 Hello
2
3 I have a serious problem with network performance. I have 4 different
4 vlan-s invisible to each other. On each of the vlan-s there are windows
5 clients with file shareing enabled. There are some directories that need
6 to be accessible from all vlan-s, so I've deployed a gentoo based "proxy
7 server". It's a Core2Duo with 5 ethernet adapters, one for every vlan +
8 one for internet connection. On this proxy machine I have mounted
9 mentioned directories using cifs, and shared them on all ethernet cards
10 using samba.
11 Here is my problem
12
13 When I copy a file from any of the hosts to a local file system of proxy
14 machine i get transfers of about 40 MB/s so it's ok.
15 When I copy a file from proxy local file system to any of the hosts on
16 any of the vlans I get very similar results.
17 Unfortunatelly when I access proxy and try to copy a file from
18 samba-shared directory from other vlan than I get 14 MB/s
19
20 I'm quite confused and don't know what can be the problem, all NIC's are
21 1 GBit/s
22 Two of them are Intel Pro 1000 (PCIExpress x1)
23 One if integrated on motherboard (nvidia 5XX series chipset)
24 Two are Dlink NIC's on regular PCI
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