Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:38:19 +0100 | From | Anders Widman <> | Subject | Re: Entire LAN goes boo with 2.5.64 |
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> Tried with a Realtek 8139B and the Intel Pro100+ adapter. The same > thing happens. The LAN goes crazy and all programs trying to > access or use the LAN on the Linuxbox goes super-slow or crashes.
> I am rather lost when it comes to where I should begin to look.
> Have not compiled in IPX, network filtering and most other things. The > only network card I have compiled in is the Rtl8139 and the Becker > Intel Pro100+ driver.
> Here is my net config: http://tnonline.net/conf.png
> I have not compiled in ACPI or APM or APIC. And they are disabled in > BIOS too.
Tried with all of them enabled too. No change in state. LAN and gateway goes down, or becomes incredibly slow and unusable...
//Anders
>> I've had this happen once, but with a 2.4 kernel. I had compiled in IPX >> and configured it for autodiscovery of frame type. On boot, it would >> flip back and forth between two different types rather fast (as fast as >> the 100base NIC could do it), freaking out every piece of networking >> equipment and every computer. See if you have IPX compiled in. >> Otherwise, run ethereal or another sniffer to see what exactly the >> network traffic is; that might be helpful.
>> Alexander
>> Anders Widman wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Trying out the 2.5.64 kernel to try to solve some IDE specific >>> problems with 2.4.x kernels. Now I have another problem. We have a >>> Windows LAN and a Windows XP with WinRoute Pro as gateway. >>> >>> When booting the linux-machine with the 2.5.64 kernel the windows >>> machine goes to 100% cpu and the switch (Dlink) goes crazy (loosing >>> link, other machines get 100k/s instead of 10-12MiB/s etc). >>> >>> I compiled the 2.5.64 with as few options as possible, no >>> netfilter, or IPSec or similar stuff. >>> >>> What can be the problem? >>> >>> >>> -------- >>> PGP public key: https://tnonline.net/secure/pgp_key.txt >>> >>> - >>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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