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Re: Strange problem with NIC



Hello,

On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:49:35AM +0100, Roman Medina wrote:

> I'm experimenting the following problem: one Debian machine with 1
> 10/100 Ethernet NIC where its upstream speed is reasonable (2 or 3
> Mbytes per second) but its downstream speed is awful (35 kbytes per
> second !!!!). All experiments are made in a LAN, so I cannot explain
> the 35 kbytes/s extremely low speed.
> 
> Any idea? TIA

we had this problem with wrong half-duplex/full-duplex settings. They
appeared when both of switch and nic were configured for
autonegotiation. Disabling autonegotiation for the switch port solved
the problem.

HTH,

Hans Peter

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