Hi,

Our system administrator doesn't have time to look at this so I thought
I'd have a look. I'm a developer and don't know much about networks
etc. so please bear with me.

We have a 64 bit AIX 5.2 box which can't use NFS due to time out errors.
I've found that using ftp or rcp is very very slow - ftp reports about
20kb/s. This is between the AIX machine and another UNIX machine on a
100Mb/s ethernet hub.

We've got about 10 or so UNIX machines on this hub running various
versions of UNIX. We have a 32 bit AIX 4.3 machine which works fine.

I've used SMIT to look at the ethernet card. It's set to auto
negotiation which we've had problems with on other systems. Setting it
to 100Mbs doesn't help.

I tried doing an error log but nothing appeared in it other than the
start/stop messages. While the error log was running I tried to use an
NFS drive and got the usual error -

A remote host did not respond within the timeout period.
NFS write error on host sgnfs1: 78.


Sorry if this is all a bit vague - can anyone talk me through how to
investigate this?

Thanks.

Peter
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