Delays in ssh connections between two local Linux computers

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Shimi,
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:28 PM, shimi <linux-il at shimi.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, shimi <linux-il at shimi.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> My bet is one of those:
>>> * bad Ethernet cable between one of the computers and the router/switch
>>> (you can verify by pinging the router from each one of the computers)
>>> * bad switch / home router (common ones where I personally encountered
>>> this: Edimax & TP-Link of any model...)
>>>
>>
>> Oh and, of course, more rare, but should be noted too: bad NIC on the
>> computer that was connected with Ethernet in the first place (because you
>> already tried a different NIC on the laptop when you switched from WiFi to
>> Ethernet)...
>>
>
> Well, the pings from the laptop to the router are fine, but those from
> the desktop machine to the router have many dropped packets. I tried
> to switch the Ethernet cable of the desktop machine to the one that is
> successfully used by the laptop, but there are still dropped packets
> there. Maybe there's a bad NIC on the desktop machine.
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>

OK, I googled my card and "dropped packets" and got here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713315

They suggest using the external driver from the e1000 project on
SourceForge.net . I'll try that.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

> Regards,
>
> -- Shlomi Fish
>
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> Electrical Engineering studies. In the Technion. Been there. Done
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>



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Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/

Electrical Engineering studies. In the Technion. Been there. Done
that. Forgot a lot. Remember too much.