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

[b1nary g0d]

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


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
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