> > for the past 3 - 4 days i've been getting crashing overnight for no
> > reason...the system just won't come back up...but most of all, my net
> > traffic just stops....i have to keep reinitiating ftp's, and popclient.
> > sometimes i can dl a whole meg other times i can't even get a prompt...
> > the socket connections never seem to die either...
> >
> > HELP!!!!
>
> Could you try without the eql device? That's almost the only thing that has
> changed in 91, maybe I can just reverse those patches. Alan, who did those?
>
> > Kernel info
> > ===========
> > Net devices : lo eql dummy eth0 sl0
>
> Linus
w/o the eql in the kernel...it still causes the problem....apparently the
win95 machine on my subnet that i route for have no problem..all packets
get through....on netstat i get sockets that close only after a very long
time and their send buffers still have data in them that never gets
through...