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Hello, |
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I'm quite desperate and have tried just about anything. |
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I'll try to explain it... |
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I connect to the net through eth0 and have a masquerading through eth1 |
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to my other computers, using shorewall. |
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My server never had any problems of this kind and all was fine until a |
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couple of days ago. I'm experiencing some heavy packet loss when |
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pinging different hosts. |
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I have isolated the problem (at least I think I did) and got to the |
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conclusion that issuing a simple 'ifconfig eth1 down' and leaving eth0 |
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up, the packet loss vanishes. |
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Tests were made with all services down (shorewall, sshd, apache2, |
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mysqld, proftpd, sendmail, ...) and with the network cable unplugged |
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from eth1 (so no traffic is being generated through eth1 that could |
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cause packet loss) |
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Here are the statistics: |
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- eth1 up - |
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# ping -c 200 google.com |
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--- google.com ping statistics --- |
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200 packets transmitted, 104 received, 48% packet loss, time 208227ms |
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rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 152.388/229.520/2016.847/279.805 ms, pipe 3 |
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- eth1 down - |
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# ping -c 200 google.com |
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--- google.com ping statistics --- |
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200 packets transmitted, 200 received, 0% packet loss, time 199175ms |
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rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 147.197/169.978/193.949/8.384 ms |
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Both network cards are using the same chipset (RLT8139) loaded as a |
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module in the kernel (2.6.11-hardened-r13). |
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I have tried to replace the network card (with one also using RLT8139) |
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and changing it from IRQ but with no effect. |
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Please help, I've runned out of ideas... |
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Thanks in advance! |
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José Pedro |
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