-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'll be honest with you, generally if things are not working right it is not a question of tcp settings. I suggested it only because I was saying I'd be interested in knowing if making them identical in Windows and Linux made the transfer speeds in both operating systems equal. See each uses different default settings. If you are having a speed issue with a direct connection between two computers, you will want to investigate the tcp settings, but also the following things. 1. The routing tables on both ends, especially if one of the machines has more than one ethernet interface. Check that packets are not being accidentally routed to the wrong interface. 2. Are transfers in either direction effected, or only in one direction? 3. Do you imploy anything like iptables that may be either blocking or redirecting some of the packets? 4. Is there a possibility that there is something wrong with the cable you are using? 5. Finally, does the Linux machine (the server, the one with internet access) have access to DNS or is there an entry in /etc/hosts for the ip address of the laptop? This can cause things to slow down because things that you wouldn't expect will issue a query for a host name. If the laptop runs Linux, it probably wouldn't hurt to list the machine you are connecting to in /etc/hosts too. - -- It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and over. (History repeats itself) Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 And so it came to pass that on Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Lorenzo Taylor said > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I found the mtu setting originally and changed it first. It seems that a > setting of 100 at both ends of the connection approximately doubles the transfer > speed between the two computers but greatly slows down the laptop's transfer > speed from the internet. The window size setting may fix this, but I'm not sure > how to set it. It seems that ethtool doesn't find any information about the > cards on either end of the network cable. > > - From the PC: > > ethtool eth1 > Settings for eth1: > No data available > > - From the laptop: > > ethtool eth0 > [same result] > > man ifconfig and ethtool both provide no information regarding window size. > > Thanks for any help, > 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) > > iD8DBQFC31RXG9IpekrhBfIRAmgZAKDLkbgeiB3XIDCXujt7RSzXzvwJCgCgnYKv > utFO8Y3DZpkTF+39//wpfjU= > =0d7M > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC37nnJ6dqn0mqPbARAp8tAJwK+aSQCRCCEVS9d89LKQhkwu8EcgCg5i1u WbeFwAJSTVGuZqxt/jS/P7Y= =haET -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
