[geeks] funky ass network nonsense

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Wed, 2001-08-22 at 22:27, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> i'm F-in cursed.  ok.  so my firewall is a sparc10 with a FDDI card, a fast E
> card and a slow E card.  my workstation sits on the FDDI ring and the DMZ box
> sits on the slow E interface.  ftp TO the dmz box, and i get 800Kbps, ftp FROM
> the dmz box and i get 80Kbps.  something is WAY outta line here.

Sounds like a duplex mis-match to me.  At least, that's my ethernet
solution.  :)  Most often caused by hardware that can't autonegotiate
worth crap.  

> where the hell should i start looking?  could firewall rules be causing 
> something like this?

I doubt that you could mistakenly write firewall rules to do that...  :)
	Greg