[Samba] Slow connection

[Noel Kelly]

Yes why not try a crossover cable?  But I must say, a Dlink switch and an
SiS NIC would always arouse my suspicions :)  Even if you have a 10Mb card
in the Server then you might find that improves things (sorry I can't
remember your original benchmarks).

Yes you can use Ethereal to capture the packets or if you are not using a
gui on Linux, capture traffic with tcpdump and then view it in Ethereal on a
Windoze machine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Koenraad Lelong [mailto:k.lelong at ace-electronics.be]
Sent: 16 April 2003 12:26
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Slow connection


Would a direct cable connection be a good test ? I could do that. I only
have one switch (DLink DES-1024R+) here, and the NIC is on board
(SiS900), and I don't have any spare 100M NICs at hand.
That "dump of network packets" how do you do this ? Ethereal ?

Noel Kelly wrote:
>>Do you have an explanation for that if the network link was misconfigured
?
>
>
> It can be that the interfaces are reporting that the link is ok and
> negotiated fine and there are no apparent errors.  However there might
well
> be problems which you should not dismiss and unless you do a dump fo your
> network packets you will not see this.  My advice if you don't have the
time
> to do this is to plug the Samba machine into a different switch/hub or try
a
> different type of NIC (or even cable!).  It might seem unncecessary but
> invariably 99% of "Samba performance issues" stem from hardware and
drivers.
>
> HTH
> Noel
>
>
> .
>


--
Met vriendelijke groeten,
Koenraad Lelong
R&D Manager
ACE electronics n.v.



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