sounds like a driver problem.. i have rt8139 card in a caldera box and a eepro100 in a debian box on a 10/100 switch, and i get about 3.4MB/s, i am quite confident the bottleneck is the IDE drive on the caldera box in my case.
upgrade *both* drivers, grab the latest from nasa's site(forgot the url off hand search for nasa at http://yahoo.aphroland.org) nate On 8 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: a.genk >My li'l home LAN consists of two boxes, connected via a 100base a.genk >network. I have a D-link DFE-530TX (via-rhine driver) in my a.genk >workstation, and an Rtl-8139-based card in my server/nat box. a.genk >My server box runs FreeBSD, and my workstation runs Debian Linux. a.genk > a.genk >I have never been satisfied with my networking performance... The a.genk >fastest I could ftp large files from the server into workstation is a.genk >1.5MBps, and a little faster in the other direction. a.genk > a.genk >Recenlty I've bought a new harddrive for the workstation, a fast one a.genk >(7200rpm, with 2MB cache), and decided to first install FreeBSD onto a.genk >it (to give it a try on a workstation). Believe it or not, I started a.genk >getting 5.5Mbytes transfers both ways right out of the box. I don't a.genk >mean to start BSD vs. Linux discussions, but just want to find out a.genk >*why* my box performs worse under Linux than under FreeBSD... a.genk > a.genk >Then I installed potato instead of that FreeBSD installation (i.e., a.genk >the same harddrive, same hardware all the way). The transfer rates are a.genk >pretty dull again. :^( a.genk > a.genk >Any thoughts? a.genk > a.genk >Some specs of my hardware: a.genk > a.genk >,----[ Workstation ] a.genk >| Celeron 300A a.genk >| D-Link DFE-530TX nic a.genk >| Running Potato a.genk >`---- a.genk >,----[ Server ] a.genk >| Pentium 166 a.genk >| RTL-8139 nic a.genk >| Running FreeBSD a.genk >`---- a.genk >-- a.genk >Arcady Genkin a.genk > a.genk > a.genk >-- a.genk >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null a.genk > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:51pm up 142 days, 10:50, 2 users, load average: 1.31, 1.42, 1.46
