On Monday 30 January 2006 7:21 am, Andrew Ingram wrote: > Hi List! > > I recently upgraded my home network to gigabit ethernet, replacing my old > 10/100hub with a Netgear gigabit switch. > > I was doing some transfer speed experiements between my Linux machine and > my windows machine, copying things to and from a samba share and I ran into > some problems. > > Basically, copying FROM the samba share onto the windows box was like > lightning, as expected. However, copying TO the samba share from the > windows box was pathetic (something which took 6 minutes to transfer from > the share was going to take 200minutes to put back!). > > I looked at dmesg and noticed lots of: > eth1: -- ERROR -- > Class: Hardware failure > Nr: 0x26f > Msg: FIFO overflow error > > Does anyone know what this means? > > The box is a Sid box, running a Debian 2.6.12 kernel and the ethernet card > is a (from lspci): > Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] > using the sk98lin kernel module. > > When the module is loaded on bootup, it ouputs: > eth1: network connection up using port A > speed: 1000 > autonegotiation: yes > duplex mode: full
Are you sure your switch supports full duplex? Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
