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From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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Subject: Re: TCP Transfers slowing down
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At 04:37 PM 14/08/2005, Jason Coene wrote:
>Before the update, the servers would sustain high transfer rates (well over
>4 Mbyte/sec), but since the update that has changed.  A transfer will start
>out at normal speed (as high as we've ever seen), but it will immediately
>and consistently drop to between 200 and 300 KByte/sec.  It will stay
>constant at that speed for the duration of the connection.

Can you post
netstat -ni
ifconfig fxp0
and a
show int fa0/<whatever the switch port is>
as well as fa0/<whatever the switch port is config>


         ---Mike