Re: NIC transferring twice its max rate

2012-01-27 Thread toor
Do you have anything such as bonding or VLANs setup? It could be possible that iftop is seeing the traffic twice eg. once on the VLAN interface and once on the actual physical interface. Just a guess though. On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Chris Davies wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: >> Hardware-wis

Re: NIC transferring twice its max rate

2012-01-26 Thread Chris Davies
Rob Owens wrote: > Hardware-wise, everything is gigabit except for the 100Mb NIC in the > desktop machine. Ah, ok. I wasn't sure if you /really/ meant that. Cheers, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: NIC transferring twice its max rate

2012-01-26 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:04:15PM +, Chris Davies wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > I've got an onboard NIC, supposedly 100Mb. > > [...] > > I've got gigabit networking between the two computers > > So do you have 1Gb or 100Mb connectivity? Hardware-wise, everything is gigabit except for the 10

Re: NIC transferring twice its max rate

2012-01-26 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 04:34, Chris Davies wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > I've got an onboard NIC, supposedly 100Mb. > > [...] > > I've got gigabit networking between the two computers > > So do you have 1Gb or 100Mb connectivity? > CHris > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: NIC transferring twice its max rate

2012-01-25 Thread Chris Davies
Rob Owens wrote: > I've got an onboard NIC, supposedly 100Mb. > [...] > I've got gigabit networking between the two computers So do you have 1Gb or 100Mb connectivity? CHris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: NIC transferring twice its max rate

2012-01-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:03:49PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2012-01-25 09:39:40, Rob Owens wrote: > > I've got an onboard NIC, supposedly 100Mb. I've been doing a dd over > > ssh for the last hour, and iftop tells me that I'm transmitting at a > > steady 186Mb, while receiving about 1.2Mb. >

Re: NIC transferring twice its max rate

2012-01-25 Thread Allan Wind
On 2012-01-25 09:39:40, Rob Owens wrote: > I've got an onboard NIC, supposedly 100Mb. I've been doing a dd over > ssh for the last hour, and iftop tells me that I'm transmitting at a > steady 186Mb, while receiving about 1.2Mb. Perhaps you have compression enabled for ssh? /Allan -- Allan Wind

Re: NIC transferring twice its max rate

2012-01-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:39:40AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > I've got an onboard NIC, supposedly 100Mb. I've been doing a dd over > ssh for the last hour, and iftop tells me that I'm transmitting at a > steady 186Mb, while receiving about 1.2Mb. > > I read up a bit on full duplex, and as I unders

NIC transferring twice its max rate

2012-01-25 Thread Rob Owens
I've got an onboard NIC, supposedly 100Mb. I've been doing a dd over ssh for the last hour, and iftop tells me that I'm transmitting at a steady 186Mb, while receiving about 1.2Mb. I read up a bit on full duplex, and as I understand it full duplex means the NIC would be capable of transmitting a