That's just the nature of cheap switching. If you look at a Wireshark (Ethereal) capture of the conversation between your two hosts, you'll see tons of re-transmissions and TCP Window adjustments as the hosts try to negotiate the link. Try dumbing the hosts down to 10Mb/Half (or Full) and see if your problems go away.
I believe you can also pick up a Cisco 3560 8 port 10/100 switch for around $800-$900 that will handle the L3 activities that you need. Hope this helps! Aaron T. Rohyans Senior Network Engineer CCIE #21945, CCSP, CCNA, CQS-Firewall, CQS-IPS, CQS-VPN, ISSP, CISP, JNCIA-ER DPSciences Corporation 7400 N. Shadeland Ave., Suite 245 Indianapolis, IN 46250 Office: (317) 348-0099 Fax: (317) 849-7134 [email protected] http://www.dpsciences.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Jacob [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Routing You can also get a low end Netscreen (or what ever it is called today) for a few hundred dollars. I have a 172.16.X.X and a 10.1.1.X separated with a Netscreen 25. Copying large file is not an issue. -----Original Message----- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Routing Why are you using the Linksys? If you need to firewall off a group of users you need a real enterprise-grade firewall, not cheap consumer crap. A PIX 506E in only a couple hundred USD these days and will blow a Linksys out of the water in terms of performance and reliability. If you're using the Linksys as a basic router (no NAT, no firewall, etc) you really really need to get an enterprise-grade L3 switch - HP 2900 or HP 3400cl or Cisco 3550. Said switches have IP routing implemented in the switch fabric ASICs. Steve Ens wrote: > I have a private 192.168.1.x network within my 10.0.0.x LAN. It is > separated with a cheapie Linksys router. Anytime the user inside the > 192 subnet tries a large file copy to a share in the 10.x subnet, it > crashes out after a few minutes. I've ruled out cabling and workstation > related issues. Would I have to adjust the MTU or add a static route on > the linksys? Any ideas? -- Phil Brutsche [email protected] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
