Linuxbox Slow Over Network [Archive]

jasonmgeorge

11-09-2002, 06:36 AM

I have a 10/100Mb network in my house conecting several Windows machines to my Linux box that acts as a server. The linux box is on a seperate switch in my living room and the rest of the computers are on a switch/router that connects to the internet.

I had noticed that it was painfully slow to connect to the Linux machine from Windows using XWin32, so I assumed it was just a problem with XWin. A few weeks ago however I tried connecting (using XWin) with a laptop that was connected to the same switch as the linux machine and it was exponentially faster; I assumed the problem was the 80 foot cable I made to connect the switch in the living room to my router.

Well, today I copied a 17MB file over to a share drive on the linux machine (from the same Windows machine that was taking ages to run XWin32) and it took less than second. Copying the same file back though was taking upwards of 8 minutes.

There's got to be something wrong with my linux network configuration but I have no idea how to find out, much less fix it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jason

jumpedintothefire

11-09-2002, 11:38 AM

What make is the nic?
run /sbin/mii-tool and see what the nic is set to, might be half-duplex or 10mb. You may need to pass the nic's module some config options from /etc/modules.conf to enable full-duplex, 100mb.