Re: [SLUG] Ethernet dropouts..

[Howard Lowndes <lannet@nospam.lannet.com.au>]

I do know that I have a couple of Realtek 8139 cards out of a batch of
about 6 and Linux flatly refuses to bring them on line, it complains that
the resource is busy.  It would appear, looking at the kudzu file, that
these mothers are not announcing their manufacturer properly and hence
Linux isn't too sure what they are.  Thats only a guess I might add.

Howard.
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LANNet Computing Associates <http://www.lannet.com.au>

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, George Vieira wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> (I never get bored with these damn problems..)
> 
> I have 3 Ethernet cards in my Linux server which are all Realtek 8029 cards.
> I don't know if these cards have problems under linux or not but I'm
> starting to wonder.
> 
> eth0 goes to my local LAN.
> eth1 goes to our clients upstairs.
> eth2 goes to the Internet via a router.
> 
> Occasionally (and lately it's been frequent) I have users who tell me their
> X sessions have dropped out but no other users were effected and effects
> just 1 user at a time.
> Lately it's been happening about 2 or more users in one hit who lose all
> their sessions at the same time including straight telnet sessions.
> 
> We are (unfortuanately) still running 10Base2 to the users and 10BaseT for
> the servers and myself. Now even my machine has started to lose sessions too
> and previously never did. Is there a way to find out how and why these
> sessions are dropped? Is it just a matter of eliminate a possible cause one
> at a time and probably start at the ethernet card?
> 
> Any ideas on what I could do to try and determine what's going on?
> 
> 
> 
> thanks,
> George Vieira
> Network Administrator
> Citadel Computer Systems P/L
> http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
> 
> 
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