Slow Network Performance 1

[iainiain]

We've got 18 Banyan servers (Compaq 5500R, PII and PIII's) with Netelligent 10/100 NIC's.

We can't get any of them over 9MBs when writing to a Win 95 or NT workstation and only 20MBs when writi9ng from the worksattion to the server.Backbone is Gig with Cisco switches.

We've tried the latest drivers, adjusted all the buffers, Intel chip set drivers. No luck.

Load NT on the exact same box and you get 100 in the lab and 75 on the network.

Any ideas or hints would be greatly appreciated.

Also, if you could reply to iain@lynx.org I would appreciate it, I've left these messages all over the web and can never remember which boards I'm on.

Iain Hamilton

 

[stuttle]

The default metric defined for the interface is 2 ----------------------------
Steven R. Tuttle
CBE, MCSE, BNCS, DCT, A+
Senior Consultant, ePresence
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[iainiain]

The server shows the metric at 1 (Native Vines 8.6), the workstation is at auto (Win 95 w/ latest client), a sniff shows the transaction at 2. Cisco routers (part of a 6500 switch)are handling the routing.

So, they believe they are talking over Ethernet (10M). Can I force the workstation to Ethernet (100M), or FDDI (metric of 1)? I tried some registry pokes with no effect.

What is a metric of 0 (zero)?

Is the NOS capable of performing at 100M?

We'll be done with Vines within the next year, but this is something that I've been working on for the last 10-12 months, this has just been a 'personal problem' trying to find the solution. I inherited this job with no Banyan training and don't quite understand all of the nuances of the protocols/connections.

Thanks for any help you can provide
Iain Hamilton

 

[stuttle]

You need to set the vines metric on the cisco to 1

Steve ----------------------------
Steven R. Tuttle
CBE, MCSE, BNCS, DCT, A+
Senior Consultant, ePresence
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