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Date:      Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:50:02 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Roberto Armenteros <rarmente@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Samba taking too long to upload files.
Message-ID:  <p05111711b9ec633bae55@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20021104145637.36997.qmail@web13608.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20021104145637.36997.qmail@web13608.mail.yahoo.com>

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At 6:56 AM -0800 11/4/02, Roberto Armenteros wrote:
>The download process is very fast, but not the upload
>process. When I upload to my other windows machine it
>goes five times as fast as my bsd box. What could be
>the problem?

Make sure your ethernet card has the correct setting
wrt half-duplex vs full-duplex.  I had a situation
where the card was assuming a half-duplex connection,
but the network port (on the gateway) was hardwired
to 100Mbit full-duplex.  The performance penalty for
samba file transfers was enormous.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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