I have had similiar problems but with ne2000 pci cards. The key
seems to be three ethernet cards. If I use two cards I didn't see
the problem (but I only ran it for 10 minutes or so). But with three
cards the system hangs when issuing an route request "route" or
listing
the ipchain rules "ipchains -L"
When in this state, the box would masquarade out to the internet
for the private machines correctly, but wouldn't respond to an
external PING request, or allow a connection to SSH deamon.
taking one of the ethernet connections up and then back down
tends to (but not always) correct the problem.
On 3 Aug 00, at 22:50, Ben Greear wrote:
> I've been running 8-hour+ traffic runs on RTL-8139 10/100
ethernet cards
> connected by a 10/100 etherswitch and linux-kernel 2.2.14 <->
2.2.16.
> I'm using three cards in each machine, one for mgt, and two
others for
> data generation/testing. I use the ip command to set up source-
based
> routing policies to direct the ethernet traffic out over the correct
> port.
>
>
> Anyone know of any significant kernel problems with 2.2.14 or
2.2.16
> that might cause this? Any other ideas??
>
>
> When the system is in it's hosed up state, I see this on the side
> that is trying to connect to the other:
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