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Linksys EtherFast NIC, full duplex?



Hi,

I have two machine connected using crossover cable and LinkSys EtherFast
10/100 Cards.  (same card on both machine).  I only get 4-5Mbyte/sec
when ftp or nfs between each other.   Both machine are running Woody.

I am sure it's not the best it can get with those NICs.  I can get
9-10Mbytes/sec if I boot one machine into freebsd.  here is ifconfig
from freebsd:

dc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
        inet6 fe80::203:6dff:fe1b:b60e%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
        ether 00:03:6d:1b:b6:0e 
        media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
        supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP none

  (I do not know how to get duplex status on debian, help me?)

I just tested it again (using 130M big file):

   ncftp reports:   (debian) --> (freebsd) 8.24 MB/s
                    (debian) <-- (freebsd) 9.54 MB/s

I can only get 60% of that when have both to be Debian.  Both debian
are using the driver compiled from the source comes in floppy(4.1
version) 

Is there any way I can tune it up?

Thanks,
Jack



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