The RTL8139 is a cheapie RealTek card. I think all the ftp clients rely on the underlying ftp protocol. I've tried command line ftp and ncftp. Thanks! Thomas > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Rice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 9:25 PM > To: Thomas Cameron > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RTL8139 weirdness (was Re: Ethernet Cards) > > > > The choke does not appear to occur in NFS or SMB transfers. I > don't think > > that it is a server problem, because I don't have to do anything to the > > server, just restart networking on the client. The problem > occurs in plain > > old command line ftp as well as ncftp and gftp. I have tried > the nic driver > > as a module and compiled into the kernel. > > > > So do y'all think this is a nic driver issue, or an ftp client > issue? Or > > neither? > > very weird, try different clients and see if it changes, you've got a half > dozen or so available in most Linux installs: > > ftp > ncftp > wget > lynx > netscape > star office > kfm > > it could also be a problem with the ftp server, it's so weird that just > about anything is possible, since it's pretty easy to do, you might try > the "other" ftp server. > > which brand of eithernet card is that, I don't recognize it. > > > > > Just thought it was weird, figured I'd see what others thought. > > > > Thanks! > > Thomas Cameron, CNE, MCP, MCT > > Three-Sixteen Technical Services, Inc. > > > > Linux training in Austin, Texas! http://training.three-sixteen.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug > > > McLaren > > > Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 6:53 PM > > > To: Michael Rice; Patrick Goetz > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: Ethernet Cards > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:35:12PM -0500, Michael Rice wrote: > > > > > > | > Has anyone seen any stats or comparisons which rate 100Mb > > > ethernet cards > > > | > (reliability, speed, and cost in that order of > importance) when used > > > | > specifically in linux systems? > > > | > > > | just third hand, someone mentioned a group writing software > to run on a > > > | large distributed system that rated several network cards. > > > | > > > | For high sustained traffic (larger packets, I believe they > said), the > > > | Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 cards topped their list. For > > > smaller packet > > > | sizes they favored the Tulip based cards (I believe Kingston > > > and one other > > > | brand was mentioned). > > > | > > > | sorry I don't have a reference handy > > > > > > Me neither, but I've found tulip based cards to be big winners. Under > > > Linux, they're fast, cpu efficient and cheap - I've recently gotten > > > them at CompUSA for $25-$10 rebate (Netgear FA310TX. Got two of them, > > > and they're both working great.) > > > > > > Oddly enough, they have Linux drivers on the floppy. It's just a copy > > > of tulip.c, so you've already got it, but that's still kind of neat, > > > in a perverse sort of way. > > > > > > Don't know about the EtherExpress Pro 10/100 cards. > > > > > > -- > > > Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > --------- > > > Send administrative requests to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > > Send administrative requests to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _____________________ _ _ _________________________ > Michael Rice |_| Collective |_| http://www.colltech.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_ Technologies _| 8007598888/8019292 pager > Consultant [] [] "The Power Of > Many Minds" > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
