In message <20030114080250.GA10566@mud.stack.nl>, Martijn van Buul writes:
>Mike Cheponis wrote:
>> I have 3 NetBSD machines, all connected with 10 base-T, call them A, B,
>> and C.
>> 
>> A's FTP throughput get (bits going into machine) 110 KB/sec
>>                    put (bits leaving machine)     60 KB/sec
>> 
>> B's is around 950KB/sec, get or put
>> C's is around 560KB/sec, get or put
>
>This reminds me of a problem I had myself. I had 4 machines on a hub,
>and throughput between A and B was dead slow (4 KB/s, if at all). However,
>A-C, A-D, B-C and B-D was going as expected. I even managed to get things
>worked around by screwing up A and B's netmask, and having them route 
>everything through my router. 
>

That sometimes indicates a full/half duplex mismatch.

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