Hey folks - I have a WEIRD problem here. I've got an old PII debian box (Woody, 2.4 kernel) with a Myson 803 ethernet card. I've been having problems sending large emails and ftp'ing large files into the box, but downloading large files out of the box is fine. This box used to have RedHat 8 on it and did the same thing - I thought debian would fix this somehow but it didn't.

Here are the pertinent stats....

ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0C:00:02:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.45.76 Bcast:192.168.45.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:208437 errors:0 dropped:4 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:50924 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:20654497 (19.6 MiB) TX bytes:15903215 (15.1 MiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xcc00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:7520 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7520 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:461324 (450.5 KiB) TX bytes:461324 (450.5 KiB)


lspci...
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: MYSON Technology Inc: Unknown device 0803
00:0e.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366 / HPT370 (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems 3DImage 9850 (rev f3)


netstat....
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 debian.dtiny.com:ssh ws101.dtiny.com:8724 ESTABLISHED
Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path
unix 6 [ ] DGRAM 147 /dev/log
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 444 /var/run/news/control
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 273461
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 448
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 380
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 189
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 184


When I ftp into this box and do a get, I can download a 90 MB file almost instantly! It works great! When I try to upload - even a 200Kb file, it gets to about 5% and then the upload just hangs out forever. It's almost like some buffer gets filled and then refuses to accept any more data or something. It's really bizarre. Has anyone encountered this before?

Thanks in advance,
Alan

lspci shows unrecognized chipset for ethernet device! Check if the correct module is being loaded into the kernel.
You are not getting a full duplex connection. modprobe may need manual options.
Do a rmmod and modprobe for that module and post the output. Maybe that will solve the problem.