Re: eth0 slow down..
Robert Tennent (rdt@cs.queensu.ca)
Sat, 18 Sep 1999 23:29:13 -0400 (EDT)
> I have a cable modem running 2.2.11 with "pump" as my dhcp client, RH6.0...I
> notice that every now and then the connection will seem to become super
> slow...ping's to another computer on the network (the gateway) go up to
> 20000 ms...however, a tcpdump shows that the pings are returned immediately
> and other computers on the network are fine (full speed)..apparently there
> is something going on internally causing this slow down. What I do is bring
> eth0 down and then run pump again, and then it works fine (i get 6 ms
> pings)...for a while.
>
> I'm running 2.2.11 SMP, the ethernet card is an NE2000 compatible PCI I
> believe.
>
I've had similar problems with other kernels, not SMP, but also
with ne2k pci. The most recent RedHat rawhide kernels (2.2.12-10)
don't seem to have this. There have been some similar reports on
comp.os.linux.networking. I reported it to bugzilla (bug 4925) on
Sept. 5, but it still hasn't been assigned.
Bob T.
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