[Sunhelp] Bad performance with SUN Gigabit Ethernet cards

Walter Krumshyn wallyk at nortelnetworks.com
Wed Aug 11 10:20:18 CDT 1999


Tayeb,

I just wanted to ensure that you had the same settings on the switch and
the Sun (100 FD, 1000 FD, etc...) if you use auto negotiation (on either
side of the link), the connection may not negotiate properly.


Wally

Tayeb Mesbah wrote:
> 
> Mr. wally we are talking 1000 BaseSX Full duplex. I don't have any problem with 100 Base TX (the throughput I have with 100 BaseTX Full duplex is 98 Mbps).
> 
> GOVERNMENT BUT WE STILL AHEAD IN TECHNOLOGY THAN NORTEL !!!!
> >
> > Did you check to ensure that the configuration on both the switch and
> > the Ethernet card are set to 100 Base T Full-duplex?
> >
> > Wally
> >
> > Tayeb Mesbah wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We just purchased two SUN Gigabit Ethernet card and we are having very bad performance when using ftp (throughput = 200mbps with back to back test "server to server" or connected to CISCO Catalyst 5505).
> > >
> > > Any idea how to improve the performance with these card? Did I need to do some
> > > kernel tunning "TCP parameters")?
> > >
> > > Please reply to my e-mail address: mesbtay at statcan.ca
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Tayeb
> > >
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