Network Bandwidth Issues

Fred Condo fred at tincture.us
Tue Jun 1 14:39:28 PDT 2004


On Jun 1, 2004, at 13:02, Joe Kelsey wrote:

> I have experienced severe network bandwidth issues on all versions of
> -stable since 4.8, and yet I have never seen any discussion of these
> issues.
>
> The way I see these issues has come from having side-by-side boxes on
> the same 100M switch have wildly different bandwidth when talking to
> various remote sites.  For instance, downloading ports, the newer box
> (post 4.8) regularly suffers under 1M bandwidth, while the 4.7 box
> merrily trots along at maximum speed.  This seems somehow unrelated to
> the actual network hardware, as I have seen the same thing with fxp, de
> and rl cards.
>
> Has anyone explored network bandwidth issues in -stable recently?  What
> can I do to work out these problems?
>

First make sure the duplex setting is the same on the NIC and on the 
switch.



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