By your description, it is almost certainly a packet loss problem...
    a cabling issue or a switch issue most likely.  Try doing large
    pings, like this, and see if you get hicups:

    bsdbox# ping -i 0.1 -s 3000 linuxbox

                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon 
                                        <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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:On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 10:59:52AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
:> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, matthew c. mead wrote:
:
:> > I have a Linux box and FreeBSD box sitting on a 100Mbit ethernet segment
:> > that cannot seem to talk to one another faster than 150K/s.  I've been
:> > using scp, ftp, http, to test this. 
:
:> And you've done tests in both directions, or just in one?
:
:Both.
:
:> Could you try using a non-TCP performance measurement tool of some sort? 
:> I.e., some sort of UDP throughput test.  Because of your comment about the
:> two boxes talking to windows fine, it sounds likely to be a TCP
:> interaction, but it would be useful to check and see.
:
:I didn't get around to it before I started looking at
:hardware/driver.  I dropped a 3c905 into the Linux box and things
:improved.  I grabbed a new ethernet card elsewhere today and it
:works just fine.
:
:> I've CC'd Matt Dillon because he's fixed a number of subtle TCP bugs of
:> this sort in the past and can probably provide some debugging guidance.
:
:I think it's the Linux driver.  Sorry for the false alert.  This would
:be a fun one to figure out if it were tcp stack interactions.  :(
:
:
:-matt
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:matthew c. mead
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