on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:58:33AM -0500, Jack (ifup@yifan.net) wrote: > 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) Haven't seen a response. My understanding is that running NICs through a hub (non-switched) network results in half-duplex operation. Only switched networks are full-duplex. But I don't know what I'm talking about. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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