-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have a PC that I am using as a router/firewall. It has 2 network cards, the second of which (eth1) is used to connect directly to my laptop using a crossover network cable. The connection does work. The only problem is that my connection speed never exceeds 425KB/s in either direction. My connection to the internet is a full 5 megabits download speed. But my laptop won't receive data faster than 4.5KB/s either from the internet or directly from the PC, and it can't send at a faster speed either. The only way I could increase the speed between the 2 computers was to adjust the MTU to 100 on both connected interfaces. That gave me a maximum connection speed of about 850KB/s but it slowed my laptop's connection down to about 50KB/s. Both the PC and laptop are running Debian with a 2.6.11 kernel, but I have had similar experiences with other distributions and both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. It is interesting to note, also, that I once had a laptop that was running WinXP and FC3 at different times in its life. FC3 gave me the same problem and WinXP gave me about a 20MB/s connection going into the laptop and a 70KB/s connection going to the PC. Any help to clear up this problem is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Lorenzo - -- - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s:+ a- C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E- W++ N o K- w--- O M V- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5+ X+ R tv-- b++ DI-- D+ G e* h---- r+++ y+++ - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC3W5MG9IpekrhBfIRAnOGAJ91/d4i4bLKKkAGg+P/DHwDkVun7gCgxapg aOBPDUfuHIC9RueggmQwVsU= =+pEv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
