[Samba] An Interesting Issue in Samba Performance

[David Brodbeck]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jra at samba.org]

> When I used to work on problems like that for Vantive all I did was
> put a sniffer on client and server and look for dropped packets. Once
> I found one or more on a lan segment I knew there was an equipment
> problem. Few people bother to do this these days - even though the
> lan equipment has got cheaper (and worse) than it used to be.

People tend to overlook the basics.  I've seen several performance problems
fixed just by correcting mismatched duplex settings.