Re: Weird slow network problem...
> Dan Everton wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> > > If its not too much of a pain in the ass you might want to try switching the
> > > oomputers around to see if the problem is in the campus infastructure. Are you in
> > > the same dorm? Are they switched or shared connections? If you live in different
> > > dorms, or areas, it could be that the uplinks to his hub/switch could be slow. Do
> > > others have any problem like this?
> > >
> > > -Aaron Solochek
> > > leko@cmu.edu
> >
> > Well, he's two doors up from me so we should be on the same switch/hub.
> > The other thing though, that make me think that's it's not hardware
> > (including network hardware) is that Windows does not exhibit these
> > problems, so it's almost definitely something Linux is doing different.
> >
> > And no, I haven't heard of anybody else with similar problems which is
> > unfortunate.
> >
> > Dan
> >
This may be a problem with packet sizes or other IP settings and a dodgy
router/firewall; try comparing the MTU used by W95 and Linux (in Linux,
MTU is displayed and set by ifconfig; not sure where you'd look in W95).
John P.
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