Re: 2.2.13pre11 and ipx hangs

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 23 Sep 1999 23:57:16 +0100 (BST)


> problem resides in the ipx portion of my system. Whenever I boot with
> 2.2.9, 2.2.12, or the 2.2.13pre11 versions, the boot process slows to a
> virtual stop after ipxd starts up. This seems to happen only when I get a
> net connection.

We fixed some IPX problems with packets getting forwarded too much (on a
netbios flood fill ipx packet). There are other reports specifically with the
olicom pci card. Why it should be just that I don't know. Ask the Olicom
maintainer to investigate and get traces I guess

> Does anyone have information about this predicament? I'd appreciate some
> insight if possible. Will gladly provide more info if needed!

A tcpdump from another box and from your machine (use tcpdump -n to avoid
DNS lookups) during this would be helpful - to start with to see if its
some kind of packet storm.

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