Re: network problem

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Johan Arens wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> I got a strange problem with my qube2.
> 
> I use it to connect 2 different networks, the final goal is to do a firewall
> with it.
> 
> The problem is, if I start a large transfert from the network connected to
> eth1 to the network under eth0, all the connections to and from eth0 are
> becoming extremly slow : ping with more than 500.000 ms, impossible any more
> to open a connection with ssh,...
> 
> However, if I do a reset of the network, with /etc/init.d/network restart,
> the interface become normal again.
> 
> I've found this in syslog :  kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed
> out
> 
> My kernel is  2.4.27-r5k-cobalt.

What is the exact version of the kernel package? You can find out via

    dpkg -l 'kernel-image-*' |grep ^ii

The latest version (on unstable 2.4.27-11.040815-2, on sarge
2.4.27-10.sarge1.040815-1) has a small fix which is supposed to address
this problem.


Thiemo