Diagnosing a slow network

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

heidi at midnighthax.com wrote, On 08/09/2004 06:50 PM:
> I'm trying to work out why copying a file across my network is so slow.
> There are four Linux boxes connected to a 100Mb switch, and copying a 300Mb
> from one system to another runs at 500K/second. The systems aren't busy, so
> it could be a network card problem, a hard disk being slow, or - what? I'm
> using scp to do the copy, so there will be some overhead with encryption,
> but 500K/sec is way too slow. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

make sure all involved hardware is in duplex mode.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
DDDD   David Kramer         david at thekramers.net       http://thekramers.net
DK KD       "The water was not fit to drink.
DKK D       To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey.
DK KD       By diligent effort, I learned to like it."
DDDD                                     - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)