Hi all,
I've gotten a little way into this problem with the RH Support folks, but
I'll ask here in case anybody else has come up with the same problem and
successfully solved it.
I'm running two separate RH 5.0 machines. One is a Dell Optiplex GXL120
(120Mhz Pentium) with 32M RAM and 3com ethernet on the motherboard. The
other is a generic 200Mhz Pentium with 64Mb RAM and a DynaTek-based
NE-2000 PCI Ethernet card. The Dell is on a particularly quiet ethernet
network and the generic box is on a reasonably noisy network.
They both suffer the same problem.
They both have particularly slow networking, mostly outbound, but
sometimes inbound as well. What I mean by this is that lets say I'm
doing an FTP transfer between a 100Mhz Pentium box (running RH 4.2, I
should add) on the quiet network to the Dell box. Traffic to the Dell
goes at speeds upwards of 700k/sec. Traffic from the Dell box to the RH
4.2 box (and some PowerMacs on the network) typically runs at about
20-100k/sec. Relatively slow by any measure.
The same occurs on the generic box with cheap ethernet card on the noisy
network. Exactly the same. Usually very slow outbound transfers but
relatively quick inbound ones.
I've already had two suggestions from RedHat Support:
1) Run /usr/sbin/ntsyv and turn off gated. I've never heard of the first
app, and I don't even have the gated rpm installed on either machine.
Problem (obviously) continues.
2) Fiddle with the MTU on the ethernet interface with ifconfig. Did
this, with no change whatsoever.
At first I thought it might have had to do with the cheap ethernet card
in the generic box on the noisy network and then when the Dell box with
the 3com setup started doing the same right after installation I was
stumped.
Any generic solutions to the problem? Anyone run into anything vaguely
similar?
I'd appreciate any feedback at all on this one..........
Thanks in advance,
Grant Bayley
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Grant Bayley
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Secretary, Apple Mac User Group (Sydney)
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