network speed problems

changed · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 26

Hello

I have a small LAN connected to the internet with cable.
Every local machine has 100Mb card and is conected to switch (it indicates that everything is OK). The only port that works with 10Mb speed is my uplink. Machine I use to test gentoo is a dual boot (win98). The problem is whenever I plug in the uplink cable and test speed with samba share I get ~9Mb/s .... same test done when win98 is booted indicates 10 times this speed !! The funny thing is that gentoo works with that speed as soon as I unplug the uplink cable ......

Regards

delta407 · Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 12:50 pm Post subject:

Sounds like your switch is confusing your network driver under Linux.
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changed · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 26

win98 works fine and RH7.2 even better ...

delta407 · Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 1:14 pm Post subject:

RH7.2 uses a different kernel than your Gentoo install, does it not?
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changed · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 26

it was the same kernell with xfs support ... it works properly now !! some kind of magic i think ...

anyway thx for your help