Re: [Xen-users] really annoying netwrking problem

[John Jaser <john@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 8:38:04 AM
> Subject: [Xen-users] really annoying netwrking problem
> 
> Hi,
> 
> having a Linux host with xen (xen-4.2.3_08).
> The Linux host is just fine. networking is bridged.
> I have 3 WIN VMs
> 
> 1) Win Small Business Server 2012
> 2) Win 2008 Standard Server R2 (Terminal Server)
> 3) Win 2003 Standard Server R2 (32bit)
> 
> I am using the signed drivers from 'univention.de'.
> I used '0.11.0.308' and all network communication is fine except
> between
> 1) and 2) . When I try to copy files from 1 to 2 or vice versa it
> needs
> minutes to calculate transfer and when I start copying it only copies
> about 4-9bytes per second. that is really annyoing.
> 
> then I tried '0.11.0.356' no change.
> when '0.11.0.372' came out I tried again. Communication was
> 'fantastic'
> between all boxes ... except one thing:
> The 'MSSQL ' Server, which is installed on the 2003 box, was
> unreachable
> or unresponsive via network. So I needed to downgrade to 356 again.
> 
> Now MSSQL is reachable again, but com between 1 and 2 is 'really bad'
> again.
> 
> Does anyone recognized similar problems ?
> Is there perhaps still a newer version of the driver which will fix
> my
> problems ?


For the Win Server 2003, did you use the /PATCHTPR in boot.ini?  Also disabling 
windows firewall on XP-based systems helps a lot.  Also experiment with 
disabling hardware offload on the xennet NICs



> 
> Thanks for your help
> Cheers
>  Chris
> 
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