On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 22:53 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:00 PM +0200 Gilboa Davara > <gilboada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I started doing some heavy NFS and SMB transfers. > > Under NFS/UDP, I had way-too-many timeouts. > > And under SMB, the performance was lousy... > > > > After doing some (?) thinking I decided to try and new card, and bingo! > > everything went back to normal. > > Interesting. I've seen similar problems with gigabit NIC's (both Intel and > Asante) on my Win2k system, and I assumed it was the drivers. Connections > would mysteriously hang. I haven't had issues with the NIC's on my DFI LAN > Party UT (nForce4 mobo). > Just to the sake of clarity, these machines were running Fedora3 and CentOS 4.1. Gilboa
