-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 30 July 2004 01:12 pm, Nicholas Butler wrote: | | A non site investigation showed that any file opened from the Server | , copied to the desktop client was being copied at super slow speeds, | as if all the bandwidth on the network had gone. | | A Quick power cycle of the Netgear switch later , and the performance | was back where it should have been !
Our experience is that many/most NICs do not autonegotiate with many/most switches properly all of the time. What you saw is indicative of that. Rebooting the NIC just forces another autoneg... So, we no longer rely on autoneg. For all of the servers we manage we set the NICs forced to whatever the network switches are capable of. Most workstations don't use enough bandwidth to make this an issue, but for the ones that do, we force the NIC settings as well. Depending upon the NIC, we use either ethtool of mii-tool to get the job done. - -- _____________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.RNoME.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBDkIZ2cQw/ayGE2gRAlVHAJ0fVK/1FOecQWRJxvwpGo9RkujbBACfYEKG 973/uF9BSf/WqBT5OYy1vQE= =RG9w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
