Performance problems 3C905

[Salvatore Toribio]

>I have some problems with an Ethernet Card 3Com 3C905 100bTX (rev 0).
>
>1) The ping to other computers in the LAN lose 20-25% of the packets
>
>2) Open a telnet connection from other computer in the LAN takes 30 seconds
>before I see the login line, and then it goes alternative slow and fast.
>
>3) Ftp connection from the LAN is very slow. But sometimes a ftp file
>transfer from a computer in the LAN to the Linux machine is very fast.
>
>4) The http protocol seems to work fast.
>
>I'm running RedHat 5.1 Kernel 2.0.34, I had installed the last driver
>"3c59x.c" (november 98) and recompiled the Kernel. With the old driver (may
>98) it worked worse.
>

Many thanks to Vaclav Hanzl and Tobias Schorr.

With their help I set the Switch and the Card to the Full Duplex mode
manually (instead of the auto mode) and now it seems to work well.

I set the card with the DOS utility 3C90XCFG.EXE

Salvatore