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Why do I get errors on the network traffic at my second ethernet card and makes a slow connection

I have a T1 line connected to my eth0 port and a local area network connected to a eth1, well I did the eth1 so that I could transfer photos and files faster over my 100mbits network but it's slower than if I go over the internet back to my network to the linux box.
Look :

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:6E:1F:11:8A
inet addr:12.9.xxx.66 Bcast:12.9.xxx.79 Mask:255.255.255.240
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:719 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:686 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:69371 (67.7 Kb) TX bytes:100226 (97.8 Kb)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0x1c00 Memory:fd020000-fd020038

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E8:78:08:6B
inet addr:192.168.2.88 Bcast:192.168.2.1 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:78768 errors:3251 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:58075 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:64169264 (61.1 Mb) TX bytes:3984144 (3.7 Mb)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xa000

How can I make it transfer faster on sftp connection if I'm on the same local area network. It took 3 minutes to transfer a tif image with 3,200 kbytes.

Thanks

wesly_chen

> RX packets:78768 errors:3251 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Too many errors on eth1.
1. Check the ethernet cable.
2. Force the switch port to 100MB full duplex instead of auto-negotiation.
3. For RedHat/Fedora, edit your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
add this line:
ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 100 duplex full autoneg off"
And then reboot.

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henry007

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I thought that the Broadcast address is the same as Gateway address, So it's different then right ?

fixnix

yes, it's different. broadcast is a special address that packets sent to will be "broadcast" to every computer on the subnet. gateway address is typically the router address of the subnet that handles packets destined for anywhere outside of that subnet.