On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 08:04 +0000, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > JohnS <jses27 at ...> writes: > > > --- > > Check out you networking stack. Like NIC Card settings with ethtool and > > your dns like namserver settings in resolve.conf. If it is getting an > > address by dhcp sometimes it want pull in the actual real dns servers. > > ethtool eth0 > > spake thus: > > Settings for eth0: > Supported ports: [ TP MII ] > Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full > 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full > 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full > Supports auto-negotiation: Yes > Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full > 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full > 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full > Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes > Speed: 100Mb/s > Duplex: Full > Port: MII > PHYAD: 0 > Transceiver: internal > Auto-negotiation: on > Supports Wake-on: pumbg > Wake-on: g > Current message level: 0x00000033 (51) > Link detected: yes > > > They are reasonably fine. it is a static IP. > > > All will get is like a 192.168.0.x from the modem/router. Ifconfig ethX > > will show you the amount of packets dropped also. Possibly a driver > > issue with your nic? Could be many things you just have to go step by > > step... > > > > ifconfig eth0 > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:E6:96:CD:A8 > inet addr:192.168.2.220 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::216:e6ff:fe96:cda8/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:3434000 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1879546 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:2928267020 (2.7 GiB) TX bytes:550552465 (525.0 MiB) > Interrupt:177 Base address:0xe000 > > > But then yum install/update etc gives me reasonable speeds in the range of > 100-120 KBytes/second and our network load is that much usually. 15-20Kbytes is > ridiculous > > We have a DNS server (an AD server) > > Is it that something that wget puts out in the network that is not liked by our > firewall? --- That is possible and it could be Bandwidth Throttling the connection much like ISPs do to peer to peer networks. There is a wget for windows. Maybe you could try that and compare the difference. http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/