[gentoo-user] r8169 and slow transfers over LAN

[gentoo-user] r8169 and slow transfers over LAN

[Kacper Kopczyński]

When I'm tring to transfer a big file from my gentoo box to windows 
(win_ip) box over smb the speed is about 2kB/s or less (until timeout). If 
in the same time I start `ping -f win_ip` the speed grows up to about 
5MB/s.

I couldn't find anything on google.

The problem is repeatable on my two computers with r8169 NIC under two 
different environments (LANs). Issue disappears when I switch to different 
NIC.

Please help.

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Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 and slow transfers over LAN

[Duane Griffin]

On 25/09/2007, Kacper Kopczyński <capsel@matrix.inten.pl> wrote:
> When I'm tring to transfer a big file from my gentoo box to windows
> (win_ip) box over smb the speed is about 2kB/s or less (until timeout). If
> in the same time I start `ping -f win_ip` the speed grows up to about
> 5MB/s.
>
> I couldn't find anything on google.

You need to work on your google skills ;) This is a very common
complaint with this family of cards. Until recently the usual response
was "stick in a different card", however it seems like the developers
are finally getting to the bottom of it. You might want to try the
patch(es) discussed in this thread:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg39315.html

Cheers,
Duane.

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"I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine" - Bob Dylan

Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 and slow transfers over LAN

[Cipher van Byte]

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Thank you very much :)

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Morpheus: "No, what happened, happened and couldn't have happened any
other way."

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Duane Griffin wrote:

> On 25/09/2007, Kacper Kopczyński <capsel@matrix.inten.pl> wrote:
>> When I'm tring to transfer a big file from my gentoo box to windows
>> (win_ip) box over smb the speed is about 2kB/s or less (until timeout). If
>> in the same time I start `ping -f win_ip` the speed grows up to about
>> 5MB/s.
>>
>> I couldn't find anything on google.
>
> You need to work on your google skills ;) This is a very common
> complaint with this family of cards. Until recently the usual response
> was "stick in a different card", however it seems like the developers
> are finally getting to the bottom of it. You might want to try the
> patch(es) discussed in this thread:
>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg39315.html
>
> Cheers,
> Duane.
>
> -- 
> "I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine" - Bob Dylan
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