[vortex] Problems with Redhat 7.1 and 3c095c

[Bill MacAllister]

--On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 11:55:44 PM -0700 Bill MacAllister 
<bill@macallister.grass-valley.ca.us> wrote:

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> --On Thursday, October 11, 2001 05:47:02 AM +0200 ruben@nutz.nl wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 01:31:15PM -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote:
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>>> I saw a recommendation on the list to upgrade to at least a 2.4.9
>>> kernel.  That the problem seems to be independant of the network card
>>> and driver seems to indicate that I should start there
>>
>> Possibly. On the other hand: since changing hardware and drivers won't
>> help either it might also be a network-problem. :) I'm nasty, I know.
>
> No, not nasty.  A very good think to look at more than once.  But, I just
> don't see any problems with the Redhat 6.1 Linux machine on the same
> network.

Well, I think that I figured out a work around for this.  Which is to say 
that I am not completely sure why my change works, but it does make life a 
lot better.  In some notes that I read about setting up ADSL a problem with 
mentioned with an MTU setting of 1500 and passing packets over PPP. 
Basically, all packets were getting fragmented into a big and small packet. 
The solution was to drop the MTU.  I tried it and that has fixed the 
problem that I was seeing.  So, in the end it was the network.

What is puzzling to be is that the Alpha Linux 6.1 system does not exhibit 
this problem.  The Alpha system is one of the dirt cheap Multia's and when 
I checked the ethernet interface its MTU was set to 1500 and it does not 
display the stalling problems I saw on the Intel system.

Bill


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