Fixed it.
I went to Donald Beckers pages and found a diagnostic/register setting
program for my Ethernet card. Used it to set the card into 100baseTx,
full-duplex mode and now file transfers are zipping. I feel that a
similar solution will work for anyone who's facing problems with a
switch, irrespective of what the card is, since switches don't seem to
auto-negotiate well, as Gaurav pointed out.
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
is the page for my Realtek card.
Thanks to all who spent time trying to figure out the problem.
Regards,
-- Raju
>>>>> "Raju" == Raju Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Raju> Hi, I'm facing a weird problem with my network. I have
Raju> three systems (A, B and C) connected to each other using a
Raju> Nortel switch. A is a linux box is on a private IP, B is a
Raju> Linux Masq system (both private and public IP's) and C is
Raju> another Unix box outside the Masq, on a public IP.
Raju> I can transfer large files between B and C without problems.
Raju> However, whenever I try to copy a large file from any Unix
Raju> machine to A (using FTP, rcp, ssh, whatever), the connection
Raju> freezes for long periods of time. If I use a Winduhs
Raju> machine instead of A, file transfers go through without any
Raju> problems. Anyone seen this freezing problem with a switch
Raju> earlier? I haven't checked with a hub, but for a number of
Raju> reasons I feel that the problem will disappear with a hub.
Raju> Regards,
Raju> -- Raju
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