I have an internal LAN@home between a mandrake 8.0 x86 machine and a win2000 laptop computer. The linuxbox has a 3com515 ISA adapter. And the laptop uses a Xircom 10/100mbit. They are connected to eachother with a XTP cable directly. The network is running at 100mbit half duplex.
My problem is that sometimes copying files between the linuxmachine and the laptop is REALLY REALLY SLOW! I just tried downloading a file from the linuxmachine by FTP .. the speed was about 200k/s.
Then I restarted the linuxmachine and tried again then I got up to 1400k/s. I checked the system load on both machines before the test and they were OK. Copying with samba or http gives the same results.. SLOW SLOW SLOW..
It seems like the longer the linuxmachine has been running, the slower connection I get between the laptop and the linuxmachine.
Really strange huh?
When I notice that the network connection to the linuxmachine is slow I restart it and then everything is fine again.. always.
I have tried to bring the network down and start it up again with the "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart" but its still SLOW.
I also checked to make sure there are no IRQ/DMA conflicts.
HELP ME PLEASE!
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