At 08:45 AM 2/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 08:28, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
Greg Engel wrote:
In looking it all over I found a Windows 2000 Pro server they had on the network with 2 NIC cards plugged into the same hub.
Are you sure it's a hub, and not a switch?
It is a hub for sure. This is a simple local network with about 10 stations. All access is done using workgroup shared folders, so I can not think that it would have load balancing available.
The first thing I would do is replace the hub with a 12 port switch and see how your bandwidth improves. Switches have come down enough in price so that everyone can afford them. A hub operates at Layer 1 of the OSI, and is by definition shared bandwidth, a switch operates at Layer 2 and provides each port with dedicated bandwidth. Enable SNMP on the servers, and see who the bandwidth hog is, then deal with it.
Greg Engel
-- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com