Re: [nsp] 7204 FTP Performance revisited

From: Neil J. McRae (neil@COLT.NET)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 10:26:07 EST


> Ok may be i was kinda vague on my first mail...but thats because i've been
> dropped in the deep end, and with only 1yr experience its a bloody deep
> pool!
>
> OK, we have 2 7204, 2 x 2 megs on 1 and 3 x 2 megs on the other. The 4 meg

2Megs to what? and where?

> is configured for LAN traffic 2 way the 6 meg for web traffic. HSRP has been
> configured to failover if either of the routers drops and take all the
> traffic across one. 2 PIX firewalls sit between that and 2 4000 series Cat
> switches then the network(s). The routers show quite a high level of
> retransmissions, CRC errors, aborts and Input errors, particularly when we
> are transferring database log file across the links via FTP.

errors on what? Are you monitoring the capacity of the 2M's? You
aren't giving enough detail.

> These files
> are 30 Mb each and we have to transfer approx 100 a day and at 40Kb/sec its
> too slow.

Regards,
Neil.



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