Don't know if this is related...my network developed this syndrome
sometime after I added another machine..just down one wire though. The
main box ix86 with redhat, then the sun3/50, then to a win95 box and
lastly (added) another ix86 box running redhat via NFS. I didn't actually
notice it until sometime after...but the ping times between the machines
stayed good and quick..telnet was fine..but with NFS or FTP transfers, a
lot of errors were occurring and it was dog_slow (<100kbps)
The sun3/50 was the worse effected machine, so I removed it from the
series down that wire and put it the other side of the main box's ether
and everything has returned to normal.
All I can guess at is the sun's ether_interface was in someway not real
happy with the loading down that wire, and was somehow causing a general
state of packet error for all machines...certainly, just moving it that
one meter of cable fixed the trouble, even though the same number of boxes
are on that wire...weird.
Cheers!
Db
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