On the Yarrow box, disable kudzu at all run levels. There is a conflict with the kudzu probe and the 3c59x driver that caused the card to underperform and report the wrong speed/duplex using mii-tool. # chkconfig --level 345 kudzu off worked for me. Regards, Joseph On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 09:37, Harry Putnam wrote: > Wondering if I've run into something yarrow specific here. > > I'm noticing what seem like very slow speeds moving data from a > running rh 9 box to a yarrow box accross a local network. With ncftp > running from yarrow to rh9 on a get action I'm seeing a high of 5.65 > KBs (mostly less) being moved. Isn't that very slow? > > I have nsf setup between the two as well but a cp -a seems slow too. > Its way faster than ftp of course but still a timed cp -a of some > 380868986k across nfs directory looks like: > (over 1/2 hour for some 380+MB) > real 32m40.217s > user 0m0.060s > sys 0m1.490s > > (That seems quite slow too isn't it?) > So maybe there is more than ethernet speed involved? > > Concerning the ethernet speed: > I've sort of lost track of how to check on my ethernet settings. > Seems like we once used something like mii-tool. > > That returns: > # mii-tool > eth0: 10 Mbit, full duplex, link ok > > And dmesg shows the device on yarrow: > > 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html > See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt > 00:0d.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x9000. Vers LK1.1.18-ac > 00:01:02:ed:56:8a, IRQ 11 > product code 4347 rev 00.12 date 12-06-00 > Internal config register is 1800000, transceivers 0xa. > 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. > MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d. > Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. > 00:0d.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled > divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 > divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0 > ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0d.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0 > 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html > See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt > 00:0d.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x9000. Vers LK1.1.18-ac > 00:01:02:ed:56:8a, IRQ 11 > product code 4347 rev 00.12 date 12-06-00 > Internal config register is 1000000, transceivers 0xa. > 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface. > Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. > 00:0d.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled > divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 > > > mii-tool on On rh9 > > eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok > eth1: no link > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
