wierdness with 100BaseT interface in linux.

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....

YMMV... This tends to be really tedious but it's what I'd do (and it's
Good Training (TM)).

Select a reasonably small file to test transfers with both OS's: Windows
and your problem Linux. Fire up Ethereal on another box and capture both
FTP sessions (in different capture files). Compare and contrast to see
where and what the problem is. In my experience, that's The Only Way
that you'll *know* what's going on. You might find that the problem
isn't even on the box you're currently suspecting...

HTH,

Steve