Hello all,

We have a group of Solaris 8 machines that are having some real network performance issues, they all go through a switch which *should* be set at 100 mb full duplex on every port which goes back to a master switch. I have checked the machines and the NIC cards are all set at 100 full. I had a networking benchmark script that copyed files back and forth from the server and outputted the times it took to transfer them, I did this for a couple of other solaris machines to get something to compare to which arent in the same location as the other group of solaris machines. The windoze admin monkeys had also done the same sort of thing testing performance but looking at the results the windoze machines destroys the Solaris machines for speed. The group of solaris machines had really bad test times whcih were alot worse then the other solaris boxes. I was wondering if there was any test I could do for bottleneck performance and general issues relating to the machines before I confront the network manager. I know theres netstat but I dont really know what im looking for.

Sorry for the essay

regards
will