Good News
Kei, my new 2.6GHz Pentium 4 Windows box, is up and running.
As I thought, gigabit ethernet works just fine with a standard cross-over cable. Since I only have two computers that support gigabit (well, three, but don't tell anyone) this saves me the cost of buying a switch. I can get about 16 megabytes per second over Samba, disk to disk. That's only about 16% of what gigabit ethernet can do, but is three times what I got from my old server and my old Windows box. On the other hand, Windows XP's routing is screwy. I'm blogging from Linux until I get that worked out. Windows can find the router just fine, but won't actually send packets there to be routed. I might just set up Yuri as a router for Kei - since they're plugged directly together, that at least should work. (In fact, Kei seems to be using the 100M ethernet port as a back-channel for the Gbit port... But still, it's working.) On the third hand, I installed the nVidia drivers on Yuri, and they don't seem to work terribly well. It may be that they just don't support the GeForce FX 5700 fully; I can try swapping it for my old GeForce 4 and see if that works better. The GeForce 4 is at least listed as supported. Oh, and Saddam Hussein has been captured. Hit Instapundit for a boatload of links.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 08:41 AM
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LOL! you've got your priorities straight!
Posted by: Susie at December 15, 2003 05:12 PM (0+cMc)
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If WinXP is anything like Win2k, shouldn't you just have to set up a default gateway and point it to the router?
The only thing I can think of is if the XP box has 2 NICs and is routing out of the wrong one as the primary.
The only thing I can think of is if the XP box has 2 NICs and is routing out of the wrong one as the primary.
Posted by: Chris C. at December 16, 2003 02:13 AM (it17o)
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