Ned <mailto:[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Every night we transmit a 1.5 gb file from our Hp System locally to a
> HP system 700 miles away.  Up until a few weeks ago the FTP was
> taking aprox. 3 hours.  Now the FTP takes anywhere from 12 hours or
> more to complete, sometimes it does not complete at all.   Thinking
> the problem was with our cisco switches, we had a cisco engineer
> check out the problem.   The engineer is recommending we hard code
> the speed and duplex on each system.
>
>
>
> My Questions is: How can you determine the current settings, and can
> they be changed?  Each system a 10/100 NIC card.
>
>

LINKCONTROL - if you have a 10/100 card, check for the "Link speed" and
"Link duplex" as shown below.

Here's an example showing a 10/100 card and a standard 10Mb card in the same
box...

HTH,
  Chris Bartram


:linkcontrol @;status=all
Linkname: LINK100   Linktype: 100BT     Linkstate: CONNECTED
Physical Path:              0/28/4
Current Station Address:    08-00-09-DA-30-59
Default Station Address:    08-00-09-DA-30-59
Current Multicast Addresses:
 09-00-09-00-00-01

Transmit bytes               37997117    Receive bytes
4316183936
Transmits                      444665    Receives
353070
Transmits no error             444665    Receives broadcast
48676491
Transmits dropped                   0    Receives multicast
74801
Transmits deferred                  0    Receives no error
89257950
Transmits 1 retry                   0    CRC or Maxsize error
0
Transmits >1 retry                  0    Code or Align error
0
Trans 16 collisions                 0    Recv dropped: addr
40153588
Trans late collision                0    Recv dropped: buffer
0
Trans underruns                     0    Recv dropped: dma
0
Carrier losses                      0    Recv dropped: other
0
Link disconnects                    0    Recv deferred
68
Link speed                        100    Recv overruns
0
Link duplex                      Full    Link auto sensed
Yes
Link mode                  100Base-TX    Secs since clear
7074477

Linkname: DTSLINK   Linktype: IEEE8023  Linkstate: CONNECTED
Physical Path:              0/28/44
Current Station Address:    08-00-09-D0-DC-B1
Default Station Address:    08-00-09-D0-DC-B1
Current Receive Filter:     broad(1) any(0) k_pckts(1) x_pckts(0)
Current Multicast Addresses:
 09-00-09-00-00-01  09-00-09-00-00-03  09-00-09-00-00-04
 09-00-09-00-00-06
Transmits no error          697  Receives no error     88933049
Transmit byte count      734514  Receive byte count  3328553641
Transmits error               0  Receives error               0
Transmits deferred            0  Carrier losses               0
Transmits 1 retry             0  CRC errors                   0
Transmits >1 retry            0  Frame losses                10
Trans 16 collisions           0  Whole byte errors            0
Trans late collision          0  Size range errors            0
802 chip restarts             0  Receives dropped             3
Heartbeat losses              0  Receives broadcast    87938989
                                 Receives multicast      104880

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