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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:45:32PM +0100, Kees de Bruin wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm having serious networking problems between 2 Gentoo Linux boxes. The |
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> configurations are: |
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> Server: VIA EPIA 500MHz, 512Mb memory, 40Gb disk, VIA-Rhine and Realtek |
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> 8139 network cards |
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> Client: Intel P4, 1Gb memory, 80+120Gb disk, Realtek network card |
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> |
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> The following can be observed: |
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> - I can communicate between server and client, but at average speeds |
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> around 40Kbs for a 100Mbit connection via a switch (crosslink cable |
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> doesn't make a difference). |
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> - Whenever I use an NFS mounted directory on the client (/usr/portage) the |
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> process will hang after a (very) short amount of network traffic. The |
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> client process has the "D" flag in the ps output so it is waiting for I/O. |
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> Nothing shows in the logs on the server. |
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> |
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> - On the server I've tried gentoo-sources (2.4.20-r8 and 2.4.22-r2) and |
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> vanilla-sources (2.4.23). Also I've switched between the VIA-Rhine and |
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> Realtek for the server-client connection. No differences. |
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> - On the client I've tried gentoo-sources (2.4.20-r8 and 2.4.22-r2), but |
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> not the vanilla-sources. |
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> - On the server ifconfig shows an enormous amount of dropped packets, but |
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> no errors. |
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Mh, if you didn't try the Realtek, i would have guessed, the VIA-Rhine |
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is a D-Link dfe-530TX and your problem... |
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Long time ago i had a lot of fun with those type of cards. Your |
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description fits perfectly. :-/ |
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Bis denne, |
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Aiko |
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