What is the switch you are useing? Is this a managed or unmanaged? SNMP capable? etc..


Sean Waite



-----Original Message-----
From: Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com>
To: TCLUG <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:27:34 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Silly network speed question

> Hi there,
> 
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Ed Wilts wrote:
> 
> > This is really indicative of something not supporting full duplex when
> > you've told it too.  Does ethtool confirm that the port is really at
> > full duplex?
> 
> Yup.
> 
> > For starters, force both ends to half duplex and see if the speed goes
> > up.  If it does, at least you know you have a duplex issue.
> 
> Hmm. I tried that, and get the same exact speed either way (transferring a 
> ~500Mb file). Now, here's the thing. I get this speed across the network, 
> from pretty much any machine TO pretty much any machine (there's about 10 
> machines). There are two switches and this happens between switches and on 
> each individual switch! All the machines are (confirmed by eth/mii-tool) 
> set to 100FDX. I tried the forced-hdx thing and get the same result...
> 
> 
> -Yaron
> 
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