Re: 3com issues in 2.6.5

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 05 April 2004 11:28, Hugo Mills wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 05:08:16PM +0200, Carlos Fernandez Sanz 
wrote:
>> > > module with both interfaces up, but obviously as soon as I do
>> > > that they dissapear - I assume this is the intended 2.6
>> > > behaviour).
>> >
>> > Let me ask you, are you noticing slowness sending or receiving? 
>> > I'm
>>
>> having
>>
>> Yes, this is why I started to look at the problem.
>> (slow as in 100 kb/s in a 100 Mbit/s LAN).
>
>   I'm reasonably certain that there's something wrong somewhere
> with the 2.6 network subsystem. I've been getting _very_ slow
> network performance with a PCI natsemi card -- characterised by
> repeated netdev watchdog timeouts under any load heavier than an
> ssh terminal session.
>
>   Hugo.

I'd be more inclined to blame it on the card driver, Hugo. I have a 
nightly rsync session that scans and updates a mirror of several 
partitions on my firewall box to a disk in this box, and it hasn't 
generated any error messages yet, over about 20 2.6.x kernels, 
currently running 2.6.5.  I get an 100% normal email from rsync every 
night, but no errors are being logged.  Its a 100base T network, 
driver 8139too on this end, an 8129 based card on the other end, and 
with an old (I think, its been 6 years) dlink FA-310 (ne2k-pci) on 
the other card serveing the dsl connection.

The firewall itself is connected to the dsl thru a second 10-baseT 
card and a router with the firewall connecting the 2 cards.

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