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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter";
color:#1F497D'>Actually, I was mainly hoping to verify that it was, indeed, a
hardware problem. One person (Trevor) reporting similar results has fairly
decent-quality GigE NICs on both sides – or at least what I *<b>assumed</b>* to
be fairly decent-quality NICs!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter";
color:#1F497D'>In your case, I’d say yes, it’s time to test different NICs.
Obviously one of your NICs is OK – although I wouldn’t want to put much money
on which one until I tested thoroughly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>I’d also not be willing to put money on whether it’s the NIC
hardware or the software (i.e. device driver) – even though you tested under
two OSes, the Linux drivers and the Windows drivers share a lot of code for
both Intel and Realtek NICs nowadays.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'> <athompso@athompso.net><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'> (204) 291-7950<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kevin McGregor<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 06, 2010 18:37<br>
<b>To:</b> Continuation of Round Table discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RndTbl] Network performance tuning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>[...]</span><br>
The source hardware seems to be having a problem sending. Receiving, less so:<span
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<p class=MsoNormal>...Although push the bandwidth (UDP) too high, and a lot of
packets get lost.<br>
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Any further thoughts?<br>
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