20 Aug
2002
20 Aug
'02
8:45 p.m.
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:47:13AM -0700, Jeff Kennedy wrote:
Reproduceable on every Sun server running gigabit for 4 days. We upgraded code on the Foundry gear we use on a Monday and, wham!, all Sun gigabit performance went to hell. It was odd that the 100mb connections still worked as before.
There are issues with flow control, back-to-back network packets and buffer space on switches. This is not related to Solaris boxes, Foundry switches or NetApp filers in particular, it's just a place where people notice the issues. I have experienced the same with Cisco switches.
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