Hi Dave,
 
> > Incidentally, the packet loss percentage is actually rather hight
> > (70 - 80%). Is that normal in USB-to-USB networks?
> 
> No.  I don't have GeneSys hardware (that support was sent to me and
> then by folk who do have it), but even using the Prolific hardware
> (when it works!) I normally don't see any significant packet loss.
> 
> Do you get messages from the driver saying why it's dropping anything?


Since I was not sure the problem has something to do with having another
NIC configured for our LAN, I've gone the easy (but slow) way or recompiling 
the kernel without support for any other card. Hence, only usbnet. The 
response to a ping/ftp/etc is equally slow. Now, I have found something I had 
not seen before (although I had not looked for it either): dmesg throws the 
following from the driver usbnet.c:

usbnet.c:  genelink: illegal received packet count 286265102

repeated a large number of times (probably one for each packet lost?). Once 
again, both machines, which have got the same kernel 2.4.18 and the same config,
exhibit the same behaviour. 

Does this make sense to you?

Regards,

Jaime


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