-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > As promised, here's some cleaned-up output from tethereal > during a test download from the web. I've obsured the local > IP in question and have deleted entries that were unrelated > local traffic. > > Packet sequence ID's 97-179 ought to jump out at somebody. > That is definitely the moment of connection speed loss. Of > course, I have no idea what to do about it, which is why I'm > here in the first place. :) > > Attached as capture6.txt > > Further info: similar behavior from a large mysql transaction to > the server being tested above, inside the LAN. However, no such > behaviour > on a large file (100MB) copy over Samba 3 from a win host to > a share on the target machine. That wored fine, blazing > speed. Most odd. You mentioned that your nic is going in/out of promiscuous mode, have you tried using mii-tool: #mii-tool -F 100BaseTx-FD eth0 - -- Gene -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQSPXlGo1POX5M8+yEQIG8QCffPBVrSL7vKW/HVAGyd/1Jw9P4zMAoKgw CC5msFSSXI4LVKdcyhSYCSLO =0pnm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
