> A couple of general comments... > > You don't have standard PC hardware - regular PCs only have IRQs > 0-15 whereas you're using IRQ 18 & 19. I assume that they are > supported on your hardware, but if your problem relates to your > specific platform then those familiar with your platform may be > better-equipped to comment.
That's okay on a dual proc system. They're two stock P2-400s - no other platform, really. > The second machine you have seems to have a lot of problems with > eth0 - 14 framing errors in 333 packets is very high. What IS a framing error? Also, the switch will show collisions when transfering data from this machine (lots and lots), even though it's basically on its own networkt segment. > Have you tried replacing your cable/NIC on that end? Cable yes, NIC no - I'll try. I've got two more questions: 1) How much throughput should I get on FTP get FTP put on 100 mbit/s? If between 3 and 5.5 MB/sec is ok, then really this second machine is the only thing broken... 2) Any idea why transfers on the first one flood all consoles with error messages? Thanks Christian