Re: IPmasq woes
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I'm running potato with two nics (netgear FA310s, Tulip driver, modular)
> runnign IP masquerading on them. The machine is a celeron/466 with 64 MB orf
> RAM.
>
> The problem I get is this: the network drops away often. Usually, the
> external interface (eth0) is fine, but the internal network goes awry all
> the time. If I run pings to the internal machines, it will drop 1/4 - 1/2 of
> the packets. And I get lots of dropped packets internally as well.
>
> I'm running the most potato updated IPmasq and tulip drivers on a 2.2.13
> kernel.
>
> Any ideas? I'm beginning to think that these NICs (or at least one of them)
> is flaky. I've set up IPmasq the exact same way several times, without
> issue.
Try a newer kernel - 2.2.13 has tulip.c v0.89 (a little over a year old).
Try using 2.2.14 - it has a considerably newer tulip.c (v0.91g) that might
work better for you.
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Phil Brutsche pbrutsch@creighton.edu
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