Re: erratic networking problem

[Ted Unangst <ted_(_dot_)_unangst_(_at_)_gmail_(_dot_)_com>]

On 12/22/05, Han Boetes <han_(_at_)_mijncomputer_(_dot_)_nl> wrote:
> This problem has been bugging me for month now. It started
> happening a month after 3.8 got tagged. At least, that's when I
> started noticing it. So it might be anything. But I suspect the
> OpenBSD side the most since returning to an older Linux release on
> the client from a liveCD didn't fix the problem. The OpenBSD
> server doesn't have a CD-drive.
>
> OpenBSD server <-> linux client
> Both rtl8169 gigabit networkcards
>
> Uploading to the server goes with 11Mbytes/s, the speedlimit of
> the ide harddrives, but the downloading goes with erratic
> speeds. 1Mbyte/s at best, 100Kbyte/s most of the time, sometimes
> no more than 20Kbytes/s

and if you use a different protocol (ftp, http)?  anything unusual in
netstat -s?