Messages in this thread | | | From | Robert Tennent <> | Date | Sat, 18 Sep 1999 23:29:13 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: eth0 slow down.. |
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> 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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