On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:02:42PM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> I have 2 NetBSD 1.5.3_ALPHA boxes and a single Debian Linux box connection to
> a 100/10 NetGear switch.  If I transfer files from NetBSD to Linux, at 100MB,
> using either sftp or scp the transfer speeds are what I would expect.  However
> if I attempt to transfer files to a NetBSD box the speed drops below 10MB!!
> I tested this moving from between NetBSD boxes and got the same result.  Has
> anyone seen this type of behavior before?

Yes.  The two ends of one of your ethernet cables don't agree about the
duplex setting.  This is almost *always* the symptom of the exact problem
you're seeing: 1/10 the throughput you'd expect, given the native data
rate of the network in question.

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