Re: My SAMBA is very slow

> > If you are using cards with the rtl8139 chipset (for example, and own experience) the simpelest solution 
> > could be to get one (1) other card.
> 
> I'm just curious, but what is the problem with that chipset. So far i didn't have problems with it, even after
> a few terabytes of transfer :-)

The problem I experienced more than one time is that , if on both sides is an 8139, and on one side a windowsbox (at least win95,98 and NT4) and on the other a samba server than the datarate went down to ca. 25 kB/s in both directions, on a 10Mbit network.
With one other card on either side all is fine. 
I found similar problems described in usenet-threads, so I generalised my experience.
That's the whole story.

	jan