On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 20:08, Micah Wedemeyer wrote: > Hi, > > My system consistently locks up on file transfers across the LAN. When > transferring a file to it using scp, it dies after less than 5 seconds. > However, if I use it to download a file from the Internet (using wget), > it does just fine. > > I have heard that my motherboard (a Via Epia MII) has DMA problems and > that high Ethernet traffic is known to lock them up. My theory is that > the Internet connection is slow enough to not hit whatever magic > threshold causes the crash. So, I was hoping to find a way to limit the > speed of transfers with scp and ftp so that they also don't lock up the > machine. > > I asked on a few message boards, and they all mentioned iptables. I've > never used it before, and am a total noob when it comes to networking > stuff. So, I was hoping that the people on this list could point me in > the right direction of where to start. > > To sum up: I need a way to limit the speed of incoming file transfers > using ftp or scp. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, > Micah brute force solution: force your NIC and the switch port you plug into to 10-Mbit Half-Duplex: mii-tool --force=10baseT-HD eth0 -OR- ethtool -s eth0 speed 10 duplex half autoneg off -j -- "What's the point of going out, we're just going to end up back here anyway?" --The Simpsons
