🚀 go-pugleaf

J_irving wrote:

> I hope someone out there can help a poor newbie!!
>
> The problem:  I have recently installed RetHat Linux 5.2.
> The machine is on a Novell 4.2 network and uses an Intel
> Ether Express 16 card. It is possible to be on this or another
> machine and transfer a file FROM the linux box at a rate of
> about 600kB/s.  However, transferring TO the linux machine
> gives rates of about 18kB/s.
>
> It is a dual boot system - when tranferring/receiving files
> using windoze ftp (QVFTP or WS_FTP) the transfer rates in
> both directions are 600kB/s.
>
> At installation time, linux was set up to use the
> 'eexpress' driver and the bootp protocol.
>
> There are no packet overflows, packets lost or errors generally.
>
> Visualising the transfer using the 'hash' function of ftp
> shows that transfer progresses at the expected speed for
> 10-30kB, then stalls or slows down to a snail pace, then
> starts again, stall, etc...
>
> I have tried
> - explicitly stating the IRQ=10, I/O base address 0x300
> - turning on/off IPX
> - making the MTU smaller
> - manually configuring (i.e no bootp) the ip address etc.
> - playing with the routing window as suggested in the
> HOWTO-Ethernet file.
>
> The only effect I have been able to achieve is a reduction
> in performance to 13kB/s.
>
> Checking usenet a number of people seem to have had a
> similar problem but no relevant solutions suggested.  One
> person claimed they started having this problem when
> they upgraded their motherboard.
>
> I have no idea where to go from here... any suggestions would be greatly
>
> appreciated.  Thanks!

I Don't know bout that but if you  .On Debian : ) I get 700k <> from a 3Com
card and a 75 pentium
It is probally some kind of firewall