Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Linux Rocks !
Yet another reason to not use RedScat. so... do you think att is optimized for win98? maybe they trhottle base on uname -r ? Jamie On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:57 pm, Horst wrote: : Recently I installed RH 8.0 from the demo CDs and noticed very slow : download rates over cable (for

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Po Petz
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Horst wrote: Any hints? --for either cure or diagnostic ? (I am willing to dig through long logs of ngrep or ethereal *if* needed) Wild stabs: What kind of ethernet card are you using? What does ifconfig have to say about your nic? Any RX/TX errors or drops? Have you

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Horst
No, I don't think it's Red Hat specific (as far as 'thinking' can go if you are clueless). As I indicated, with other earlier distros I experienced things similar to some extend, but w/o ever documenting transfer rates. Can you expand on what maybe they trhottle base on uname -r ? means ? -

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Horst
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Po Petz wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Horst wrote: Any hints? --for either cure or diagnostic ? (I am willing to dig through long logs of ngrep or ethereal *if* needed) Wild stabs: What kind of ethernet card are you using? What does ifconfig have to say about

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:14:09AM -0800, Horst wrote: ... kernel: http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html Did you read that? ... kernel: AMD756: dev 10ec:8029, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 ... kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0c.0 ... kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:07.4

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Mike O
How about recompiling your kernel to get rid of any extra crud RH tends to add to the system. Aren't kernel compiles the answer to all of life's questions? :) Otherwise if the card is not onboard, try a different slot. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Horst
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:14:09AM -0800, Horst wrote: ... kernel: http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html Did you read that? Now I did. Wow, if even the *author* of the kernel module says the following I may have to go NIC shopping: PCI

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Bob Miller
Here's somebody on the web who had a very similar problem, with a similar solution. http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/netfilter-0211/37/1.html I wonder if your cable modem is using a larger MTU than ethernet has, and is repacketizing your TCP stream along the way. That would allow it to

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Linux Rocks !
Well... I didnt say it was RedScat specific. I simply said Yet another reason to not use RedScat. There are many other reasons I dont use it, or support it. Hopefully w/in a month, Ill be able to do my own testing with Broadband... What I was trying to elude to with the uname -r tells