[Dorset] Bizarre networking problem

2014-01-20 Thread Graeme Gemmill
At least, I think it's bizarre. The problem concerns the ability of a laptop to connect to NFS shares on two desktop computers DTa and DTb. I am starting migration of my computers from Mandriva to OpenMandriva. Environment is: DTa runs Mandriva 2011.0 DTb runs OpenMandriva 2013 Laptop runs

Re: [Dorset] Bizarre networking problem

2014-01-20 Thread Peter Washington
Hi Graeme, One thing that jumps out at me is that the HP200 and HP500, (I'm assuming that these names refer to Home Plugs running at 200 and 500 Mb/s respectively), are not properly matched for speed, so when they work they are presumably throttling the whole system down to 200 Mb/s, this alone