[eepro100] Report (another) 82557 eepro100 delay.

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Pablo Barroso Cubillas wrote:

> Hi to anyone reading this.
> Just to report the infamous "delay" or "suspend" or whatever problem
> also happens to me. 
..
> No results: Yes, both cards work, but terribly slow.
>
>  When it comes to low activity, it takes veery long to respond, and on
> the other side, if it is heavy loaded, eth0 responds on milliseconds
> (żż??) 

Check
  - sleep mode using 'eepro100-diag -ee'
  - dropped packets, or other errors

> - Notebook ALWAYS takes a minute or two on answering.

You have a nameserver problem.  This is unrelated to the driver.
Check your nameserver configuration.  Remember that both ends of a
connection must have resolvable names.  Just because there is no delay
when the local host pings the remote host by name, doesn't mean that the
remote host can resolve the local host's name to log it when you attempt
other operations.

> More data: 
> On Windows 2000 (oops, sorry), the notebook also suffers medium (<1
> min.) network delays; also takes years to boot ( spares 2 minutes on
> some network timeout with no disk operation before login screen ). 

Yup, nameserver problem.

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