OT: network problem (speed) *grumbles*

Craig Tinson craig at 8010.co.uk
Tue May 25 21:29:28 UTC 2004


*grumbles* am looking for a last ditch idea before I launch something 
out the window.. lol

all i've done is move a box from one room to another.. plugged in a 
different cable (to the same hub)  and now its traffic speed is 
crawling.. it feels more like a 10mb network than a 100mb..

have tried 3 different cables.. all the same resulting slowness..

as a test have tried scp'ing a 13mb file at it from a fileserver.. then 
done it again.. takes between 25 secs and a min:30..

when I check ifconfig on the slow machine there is no indication of 
problems...

-----------------------------------------------
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:AD:78:59:FF
          inet addr:192.168.0.199  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:21678 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14962 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:28376497 (27.0 Mb)  TX bytes:7490577 (7.1 Mb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xec00
-----------------------------------------------

and I get the same slowness when I try to *send* from it too..

I have other machines on the network and they all send the same 13mb 
between themselves in about 1 second..

-----------------------------------------------
[root at www root]# ls -la testfile
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     13296901 May 25 22:27 testfile
[root at www root]# scp testfile 192.168.0.133:
root at 192.168.0.133's password:
kernel#2.4.22-1.2179 100% |*****************************| 12985 KB    00:01
[root at www root]# scp testfile 192.168.0.199:
root at 192.168.0.199's password:
kernel#2.4.22-1.2179 100% |*****************************| 12985 KB    00:24
-----------------------------------------------

have rebooted the slow machine a few times and thats not made any 
difference.. the lights on the NIC say its connected at 100.. and the 
lights on the hub say its 100..

anyone any ideas afore I start launching kit outta the window??

TIA

Craig





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