On 19/01/07, Jean-Francois Pirus
We're getting about 256Kbit/s absolute maximum through these boxes, whereas on the Ciscos we can sustain 8-10Mbit/s no problem in some tests, and burst much higher. [snippy] As your cpu usage is rather low, you could be getting packet loss.
We had an issue in the past with a upstream ethernet interface set at 10Mbit/Full duplex, but as the firewall could not negotiate, it defaulted to 10Mbit/Half duplex. We got about 5% packet loss in that scenario.
Eergh - I had only been skim reading... 256Kbit max through these boxes?? Something's VERY wrong... JFP's post above made the think to explicitly state that it's worth FIXING eth speed and duplex, not just checking to see what it thinks it's negotiated... Change both ends and fix the ports to the best they will support (Or in this case, anything, since 256Kbit is awful)... Apart from that, if you have the luxury, I'd swap in a different PC with different brand NICs with a ghosted copy of the setup just to convince yourself it's not a peculiarity of the setups you have. Finally, make sure you don't have anything funky going on with the hard drives... I recall a while ago (yes, ok, it was on windows) a HDD dropped into PIO mode and utterly crippled the entire machine... Good luck. Cheers - N