[X4U] Ethernet Settings

[Eugene]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Brad Mosher <bmosher at perryjudds.com> wrote:
: Eugene asked:
: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:39:41AM -0500, Brad Mosher <bmosher at perryjudds.com> wrote:
: > : 
: > : I have migrated a handful of Mac's (various vintage, G4 400's up
: > : to dual 1.25GHz) to OS X. Operators complain that network speeds
: > : have dropped off from OS 9. And they have. I can boot a G4 400
: > : into OS 9 and OS X, and 9 will have significantly higher transfer
: > : rates. They are plugged into a Cisco switch, addresses are
: > : manually entered by me using information given to me by IT.
: > : Nothing else has changed.
: > 
: > What does "significantly higher transfer rates" mean?  Numbers help.
: > What does "ifconfig en0" report?  Are you running half-duplex when
: > you're supposed to be running full-duplex?  Any link errors?  MTU
: > setting?
: 
: OS X data transfer (server to Mac hard drive) is 20% slower than if the same
: machine booted in OS 9 were to perform the same copy.
: "ifconfig en0" reports full-duplex. It should be full-duplex.
: Network Utility is not reporting any errors or collisions.
: MTU is at 1500.
: As I continue to investigate. I have discovered the server supplying files
: is a Snap Server. Possible culprit?

Dunno.  I don't have much experience with Snap servers.  I found some
things over at MacInTouch, but the postings are several years old.  But
in case they might provide any clues, here's the link:

	http://www.macintouch.com/snapserver.html

If there's no errors noticed, then you can most likely rule out any kind
of media-related problems.  What version of OS X are you using?  And how
are you connecting to the Snap server?  Apple-something over IP?  SMB?


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Eugene
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