Thanks to all who replied (Stan Horwitz, Sean O'Connell, Russ Fish, Selden
Ball, and Kathee).
The solution turned out to be the need to set both /etc/rc.config and the
ewa0_mode in SRM to half-duplex, and then power cycle the machine.
Original message was:
> Hello all,
> I hope that one of you has seen this before and knows the proper fix! I
> have a a DEC personal workstation 500au running Tru64 5.1 whose primary
> purpose in life is to run httpd and sftp. Both services provide transfer
> rates of around 100k/sec to the outside world, which is the limit of our
> connection. However, on the lan we can't transfer to this machine any
> faster than 8k/sec (when it's plugged into a 10bt hub) or about 80k/sec
> (when it's plugged into a 100bt hub or switch). The other machines on
our
> network transfer at about the expected rate (700k for 10bt and 2mb for
> 100bt). I have tried setting ewa0 to full duplex, auto-negotiate, and
> fastfd, with no significant improvement. Any ideas, anyone?
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Graham Donovan
graham37_at_u.washington.edu
Received on Mon Apr 30 2001 - 04:22:59 NZST