Re: Ethernet Oops / Ethernet Freak

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 7 May 1999 17:45:31 +0100 (BST)


> problems. We have a RedHat 6.0 system running 2.2.5 compiled on egcs which
> decides occasionally to ipx flood our entire network. We are using IPX for
> nothing, just in case you're wondering. The system is using an eepro100.o

Ok. Can you get me a tcpdump of this happening next time it occurs.

> rpciod, which was about the only network daemon still running while it was
> happening. We couldn't kill -9 it, so I'm guessing it made a kernel call
> that just freaked out.

I suspect the problem is entirely kernel. I've had some traces before that
looked similar but when the Linux box was removed continued so appeared to
be some kind of cisco melt down. There may be a lot more than first met the
eye however

Alan

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