wierdness with 100BaseT interface in linux.

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Author: Craig White
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Subject: wierdness with 100BaseT interface in linux.
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 21:13, technomage wrote:
> On Sunday 04 January 2004 08:52 pm, Craig White wrote:
> >
> > ----
> > change cables - sounds like you've got a cable with only 4 wires (cat 3)
> > and you would need cat 5 (8 wires) - I remember this exact same thing
> > happened to someone else. Windows doesn't always report the true nature
> > of the connection.
> >
> > Craig
> tried that.....
> no dice. also, windows may not report, but the ftp client I was using was able
> to get and put a 30 meg file in 6 seconds in windows. tried the same thing in
> linux and get was 6 seconds but put was 14 minutes.
> go figure....
>
>

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assuming that you already looked at this stuff...
ifconfig (linux)
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0B:DB:93:23:1E
          inet addr:192.168.10.7  Bcast:192.168.10.255 
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1143206 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:236335 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:114895308 (109.5 Mb)  TX bytes:57807480 (55.1 Mb)
          Interrupt:17


shows txquelen:1000 & MTU 1500 & 0 errors