[realtek] ping eth0 takes 74000 ms cycle

[Paul Campbell]

On Thursday 07 December 2000 06:57 pm, Tiago Pedroso wrote:
> Hello...
>
> Can anybody explain me what's wrong .... ?
>
> pinging my eth0 using a rtl8139 driver
>
> 64 bytes from 10.192.11.53: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.192.11.53: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=74000.0 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.192.11.53: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=148000.2 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.192.11.53: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=222000.2 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.192.11.53: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=295999.9 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.192.11.53: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=370000.1 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.192.11.53: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=444000.2 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.192.11.53: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=518000.1 ms
>
> --- 10.192.11.53 ping statistics ---
> 603 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 98% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 0.1/296000.1/592000.1 ms

I believe this was a bug I found and fixed and was folded into version 1.10 - 
grab the latest driver 1.12 or later.

An easy way to test it - ping it with a really long packet (say 10k bytes) 
and see if it fixes itself within a few pings

	ping -s 10000 10.192.11.53

(Donald - I think this is the 3rd time I've answered this question - could we 
add this, the test and the fix to the FAQ somewhere?)

	Paul Campbell