Take a look at mii-tool. You most likely have NWAY problems...its easier to set the interface on the switch however. Dennis At 01:02 PM 12/02/2001, you wrote: >I have an Etherexpress Pro/100 built into my server [Acer Altos 12000]. I >installed RedHat 7.2 on it and everything went smoothly but I am getting >abysmal transfer speeds through the ethernet interface. I downloaded the >kernel sources from another machine on the 100Mbit switched network and I >got an average transfer rate of 56KB/sec from it. This same machine can >exchange data perfectly with other hosts on the network with no slowdown, so >I expect that the problem is with this new Altos server. > >What would be the best place to start looking? There were no collisions nor >errors on the Ethernet interface. Ping times are perfectly normal for our >network - 0.4ms ~ 1ms. > >If it were a problem with media detection (the Altos server is directly >connected to a 3COM SuperStack II 3300 in autosense mode) then I'd expect to >see some errors on the interface, or collisions etc, but nothing seems to be >amiss there. > >Any suggestions? > >-Ahsan Ali > >- >: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
