19 Oct
2006
19 Oct
'06
7:42 p.m.
> Locking it to 10/full was what the MCI technician
recommended after
> I opened a ticket because the line was dropping to 500Kbs
> up/down. This was a 4Mbit up/down line burstable to 10. They said
> it was not possible to increase the capacity of this line, so I
> guess they are using their old 10Mbit equipment for this. Since
> locking it like they asked speed has been fine,
OK, it wasn't clear that you were talking about a specialized
circuit delivered from a telco.
BTW, this phrase "the line was dropping to 500Kbs up/down"
implies that there was some protocol synching taking place
that negotiated the speed at that level (like a dsl line).
It would be more accurate to type "my observed throughput was
only 500Kbs up/down."
> and the cable is a 2 meter factory made one
plugging into the
> datacenter patch-panel, so I don't think that's a problem...
My reference to the cable was for a situation where we're talking
about a real local area network, where you might have a central
switching fabric and machines distributed perhaps throughout a building
and was meant to apply to the cable run from the main switches to the
openser box.
So, now I don't get your set-up... when you typed "I had to lock-down
the network card to 10mbit full-duplex" and then the bit above about
the MCI technician and the 4Mbit circuit etc. then this sounds like
you have a box running openser that is directly plugged into a
metro-lan-style connection that is hardcoded at the provider end to
10/full.
And yet, when you type "datacenter patch-panel" this implies that
there is a local area network which implies some sort of central
switching fabric and then when I consider "old 10Mbit equipment"
together with the phrase "datacenter" my jaw hits the ground...
Where is your server?
Thanks,
-mark