OK so I've been burned and am finally doing regular backups. There are
6 boxes on the home LAN here and I had a 5 port 10/100 hub and a 10
Base 8 port hub so at best 2 machines were stuck at a slower
connection. This didn't bother me much because there was never a
great deal of large files being passed. I just used the 8 port hub
cause the puppy chewed one of my patch cords.
This morning I went out and got a shiny new 10 port 10/100 switch.
So, after hooking it up, I did an scp of a stage-3 tarball from 1
gentoo box to the other Throughput was 656 kb/sec,virtually the same
as with the10 Base hub. I restarted net.eth0 on both boxes and tried
again. This time, the throughput was 971 kb/sec or about 1.5 times as
fast. Should I expect more? both machines have 10/100 nics and the
switch shows connection at 100 Base. The boxes are both connected to
the hub with 6 foot cat5e patch cords. Is there some configuration
I'm missing do I need to reboot? :-( What kind of throughput do
others see on a similar setup?
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Regards, Ernie
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