Crypto
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Problem solved. Culprit: Bad Linux NIC/Driver
Wow, after googling on the sysctl command milo posted here, I saw at least one instance of someone saying "I set this command on my BSD box because I was having problems with a realtek ethernet card that for some reason wasnt handling delayed ACKs well"
Well, I have a Linksys card, which had a realtek in it. So I shut down the venerable linux server thats been going for 5 years, and swapped out the linksys card with a spare Intel E100 I had.
I remmed out all the samba performance options I had tried, and set delayed acks back to 1 on the OS X box, and pulled a giant file down from the samba share.
And it hauled ass.
Thats damned near the strangest network problem I have ever seen in my life, and I have no way to explain it other than to chalk it up to bad linux driver code.
Thanks everyone, for their help, and specially thanks to Milomindbender for putting me on the right track.
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