Hi everybody,
I had been connecting laptop and desktop using PLIP for ages without a single problem. Then I got a new laptop and upgraded to ethernet. Although the speed is amazing compared to PLIP, the transfer of even moderately sized files (from 2M about) sometimes hangs the connection. This happens as well with ftp than nfs transfers. A file diff accross the network may also hang. If I manually remove and restart the network interfaces and routes on the desktop system, it wakes up. But then next time the transfer hangs, the full desktop system will hang as well, with a hard reboot necessary. All other network applications I have tried work perfectly (telnet, masquerading, rdate). Removing the gateway does not help. On Windows XP / 98 the problem does not show, file transfer is OK. I have been like this for months. I didnt find anything on group or web archives. I have strictly no clue. Could someone help me, or tell me where to ask if this is not the right place ?
laptop (Estragon), kernel 2.6.7 module via_rhine
[alex@Estragon alex]$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:F6:39:31 inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:253 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:100276 (97.9 Kb) TX bytes:26378 (25.7 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xdc00lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1700 (1.6 Kb) TX bytes:1700 (1.6 Kb)
[alex@Estragon alex]$ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface Vanille * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lodesktop computer (Vanille) : kernel 2.4.26 tried modules rtl8139 and 8139too : same problem
[alex@Vanille alex]$ cat /proc/pci Bus 0, device 14, function 0: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 16). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. I/O at 0xda00 [0xdaff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdffffe00 [0xdffffeff].[alex@Vanille alex]$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:2E:23:3E:84 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:187 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:137 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xda00
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:200 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:200 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
[alex@Vanille alex]$ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface Estragon * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo [root@Vanille alex]# rtl8139-diag -aem rtl8139-diag.c:v2.13 2/28/2005 Donald Becker ( snipped-for-privacy@scyld.com)