Re: [gentoo-user] weird 1000baseT problem

[Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>]

On 12 August 2005 04:13, Bob Sanders wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:40:12 +0100
>
> Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na> wrote:
> > I am puzzled. First I thought that the Gb NIC on box A is somehow kaput
> > but case 1 surely shows it is performing. What the heck is going on here?
> > I would be deeply indebted to any person on this list that could shed
> > some light on this. Any hint what to investigate would be highly
> > appreciated. Really. This has troubled me for the last three days and I
> > would go as far as ship you a Windhoek Lager. ;-)
>
> The long timeout before password is probably DNS not working the port
> properly. Just a guess.

Nope. Same behaviour when using IP addresses.

>
> Have you tried - scp, in both directions?

Yes, did it now. Surprisingly it transfers data at 2xB/s both ways. Quite 
different from sftp.

>
> And which nfs?  V3, V4?  I suggest V4, if not.

V3 is what nfsstat says. Hmm. I've enabled both, V3 and V4, server- and 
client-side. How do I force it to use V4?

>
> Have you run top and netstat -rn on both boxes to see what they think the
> routing is?

Routes are alright. Both boxes have a route to the class C network 
(192.168.254.0/24) they are using.

Uwe

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