RE: Linux Question

["Tim Grossner" <tg@cityscape.net>]

Well...Actually Gary and I tried moving the HD's into another machine, along
with the DEC Tulip based card. It started working fine after that.

This was on a pentium120, but it was one of those IBM Aptiva's. Real strange
configuration.

Tim



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> From: owner-luci-discuss@luci.org [mailto:owner-luci-discuss@luci.org]On
> Behalf Of Cloudmaster
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 8:50 PM
> To: luci-discuss@luci.org
> Subject: Re: Linux Question
>
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Tim Grossner wrote:
> > I am running into something weird....
> >
> > A new linux box we are runing is acting strange. It runs all
> the standard
> > services, including samba. in both samba and FTP, transfering
> large files
> > seems to just stop...and doesnt recover. Samba i wouldnt be too worried
> > about, but FTP is doing it to..I can still get to the box, when this
> > happens, and nothing appears wrong. Load average is low, and
> the process of
> > STOR filename is still running.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Can I safely guess you're using windows for one end of this transfer?  And
> can I likewise assume that you're running inexpensive ethernet
> cards on said
> windows box?  Watch your collisions - they'll be pretty high during this
> transfer.  Then one end of the box appears to just give up after so much
> lost traffic and so many retry attempts.
>
> I had this problem with a NE2K-compat PCI card on my windows box, and I
> couldn't figure it out for the life of me.  It appears that teh
> combo of teh
> cheap ethernet card and the noisy PCI bus (not helped by the diamond
> "take-the-whole-PCI-bus-for-myself" video card was bad.  I got a
> 3-com card
> and everythign's beautiful again, and transfers are faster to boot.
>
> As always, YMMV.
>
> --Danny
>
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