Hi thanks for you response.
Box-1 (the server) has a 3Com 3c905 connectin to the LAN and Box-2 (the client)
has LinkSys EtherFast 110TX card. I think they support duplex. If understand
corretly your message, I should set the "option=" for the driver for each card
to half-duplex? The LinkSys card uses the Tulip driver.
On Mar 31, 9:40am, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> Subject: Re: Slow ethernet LAN
>
>
> On 31 Mar 99, at 9:17, Stavros Kassinos wrote:
>
> > I have a home LAN comprising of 2 linux boxes (Box-1 and Box-2). They are
> > both running RedHat Linux 5.2 . The two machines are connected with
> > 100base-T ethernet via a hub. Box-1 is the server connected to the ISP via
> > DSL.
> > PROBLEM: The connection, even the local one just between Box-1 and Box-2,
> > is slow. FTP transfer rates are only 1-5Kb/sec!!
> >
> > Does anybody have any suggestions where the problem lies?
>
>
> do you have full duplex enabled on the nics? I've seen that take a network
> speed waaaaaaaaaay down! (assuming one doesn't have a switch or high end hub
> that supports fdx) In one example, just changing from full duplex to half
> duplex allowed downloads to got from 5-10k/s (at netscape's site) to 100k/s +
> speeds.
>
>
>
> Harondel J. Sibble
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