[Tfug] Need help on a server performance issue...

[Jim March]

No, I have a router and a hub.  Every machine is getting DHCP off of a
quality router, but the router doesn't have enough physical ports.  So
one port off the router gets split eight ways at a dumb but powered
hub, which should be OK.

Jim

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:55 AM, b1nary g0d <b1naryg0d.ws at gmail.com> wrote:
> well keeping that in mind...he mentioned using a hub instead of a
> switch...any network tech will tell you thats a no-no unless you cant afford
> anything else
> --B1naryG0d
>
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> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming <angussf at geoapps.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 26 Sep 2010 at 17:01, Jim March  wrote:
>>
>> > So...I'm thinking I need to see if the Ethernet port in the server is
>> > going south, OR check for something on the local net dumping excess
>> > packets.  Been years since I've had to wrassle with something like
>> > this.  Do I use Wireshark or the like to check for something screwy?
>>
>> Back in the day when I used to support a lot of Netware networks, problems
>> like
>> this were often caused by 10/100 duplex mismatches caused by crappy
>> autonegociation between the switch and the server's network card.  Usually
>> we
>> made the problem go away by forcing the server NIC (and the switch port,
>> if we
>> had a manageable switch) to 100 mB Half Duplex.
>>
>> Also, are you running Samba on Ubuntu, with Active Directory?
>> --
>> Angus Scott-Fleming
>> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
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