ok, I tried something.

ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex half autoneg off 

seems to have works (partially). the performance is a lot better, but still 
well below what I am accustomed to.

I can just about get T-1 speed out of the lan upstream. its a lot better than 
isdn 64k.

Technomage

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 05:01 pm, Alan Pratt wrote:
> Silly question, but is the NIC set properly in relation to the
> hub/switch? I've seen big differences when setting the NIC properties to
> match the switch. For less expensive switches, 100 Mb/half duplex seems
> to be the way to go. Leaving at 'Auto Select' causes the NIC to run at a
> fraction of the speed. Perhaps the MS opsys's are automatically handling
> the setting better than the default 'nix config?
>
> - Alan