Getting back to a problem from before my other, bigger
problem (which prevented my documenting this problem)...

I'm not even sure it really is a problem. I just want to 
be sure that it is not related to my mgetty delay problem
noted in another thread. I just observe a big, big speed 
difference between the ThinkPad and the Tower.

We kinda went over this before. Then, however, ftp would
flat stall and die. Now it never stalls, thanks to the
"mtu 1500" arg suggested previously. I just want to know
if the speed asymetry is something to worry about.

Putting ThinkPad -> Tower: 891.92 KB/s 
Getting Tower -> ThinkPad: 41.11 KB/s

Now, the ThinkPad is 266MHz PII, and the Tower is 800MHz Celeron.

The LAN connection has been upgraded from X-Over cable to a
Netgear Fast Ethernet Switch. I have commercial, pre-terminated
cables.

The Tower reports of its LAN card thus...
 
gus# ifconfig fxp0
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 00:03:47:a0:49:27
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
        status: active
        inet 192.168.1.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::203:47ff:fea0:4927%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
gus#

The ThinkPad reports of its LAN card thus...

thinkpad# ifconfig ne2
ne2: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 00:04:5a:92:6e:ae
        media: Ethernet manual
        inet 192.168.1.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::204:5aff:fe92:6eae%ne2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x12
thinkpad#

And this is how FTP works from the ThinkPad to the Tower -- put & get...

thinkpad# ftp
ftp> open gus.starling.ws
Connected to gus.starling.ws.
220-
220 gus.starling.ws FTP server (NetBSD-ftpd 20010329) ready.
Name (gus.starling.ws:root): aplonis
331 Password required for aplonis.
Password:
230-
    NetBSD 1.5.1 (GENERIC) #56: Mon Jul  2 15:54:23 CEST 2001

    Welcome to NetBSD!

230 User aplonis logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> put rsync-2.4.6.tar.gz
local: rsync-2.4.6.tar.gz remote: rsync-2.4.6.tar.gz
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||65517|)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'rsync-2.4.6.tar.gz'.
100% |*************************************|   324 KB  891.92 KB/s    00:00 
ETA
226 Transfer complete.
332253 bytes sent in 00:00 (883.84 KB/s)
ftp> get rsync-2.4.6.tar.gz
local: rsync-2.4.6.tar.gz remote: rsync-2.4.6.tar.gz
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||65516|)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'rsync-2.4.6.tar.gz' (332253 
bytes).100% |*************************************|   324 KB   41.11 KB/s    
00:00 ETA
226 Transfer complete.
332253 bytes received in 00:07 (41.09 KB/s)
ftp> quit
221-
    Data traffic for this session was 664506 bytes in 2 files.
    Total traffic for this session was 665422 bytes in 2 transfers.
221 Thank you for using the FTP service on gus.starling.ws.
thinkpad#

Thanks,

Gan