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On Saturday 27 December 2008 11:29:08 Mick wrote: |
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> On Friday 26 December 2008, Grant wrote: |
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> > I have 3 Gentoo systems on a wireless network, one of which is the |
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> > firewall/router. Sometimes any traffic to one of the systems |
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> > effectively freezes traffic on the whole network. Does anyone know |
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> > what might cause that? It's tough to investigate because it doesn't |
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> > happen all the time. |
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> Not sure if it is remotely related to your problem, but I've noticed |
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> something similar happening when I was using a Netgear DG834 router and |
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> happened to start up a box with a gigabit ethernet card (everything else |
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> was 10T-100). While the gigabit card was negotiating speeds with the router |
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> everything else was unable to use the network. That could last for up to a |
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> minute or so. When I changed router the problem went away. |
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+1 |
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I've seen and heard the same from others too. Some cheapish 4 and 8 port |
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routers don't handle gigabit well. I've seen some lock up solid when trying |
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to cope, I've seen some only lock up on certain ports. So it's worth trying |
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another port or another router. |
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From the outside it certainly looks like crappy programming/drivers on the |
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router |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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