[geeks] Network Slowness

[Sridhar Ayengar]

der Mouse wrote:
>> I have used these *same machines* running on the *same OS loads* with
>> 100Mbps FDDI cards instead of gigabit ethernet cards and gotten
>> better performance (2x faster) than I am getting now, *using
>> OpenSSH*.
> 
> Ugh.  Then yes, the hardware, the driver(s), or both must be pretty
> much crap.  (Or, I suppose, the cables or switch....)
> 
> It certainly does seem to eliminiate ssh overhead as the culprit. :)

It seems there was some meshugas in the way the driver was detecting my 
ethernet interface's PHY.  I'm working on it now.

Peace...  Sridhar