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On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 12:01:04AM -0400, Mike Hardiman wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Well I've noticed that noone has yet to reply to my problem, most
> likely because of its complexity. I've been able to narrow down the
> problem however:
>
> 1.) The system freezes only when the network is up
> 2.) Best guess is that it occurs when so much data has passed through
> the ethernet adaptor
> 3.) This occasionally causes hard drive "inode errors" as previously
> noted, likely when the system freeze just so happens to occur at the
> same time the system is writing to disk.
>
> 4.) This same eth adaptor (Netgear) had previously been used as eth1
> on a Slink system, and would suddenly "drop out" with no notice while
> handling massive data transfers on the local network.
Sounds like potentially bad hardware.
OTOH, I had problems on a system running kernel 2.2.14 and smbfs,
sounding similar to your description, though I would get a kernel OOPS
message generally several hours prior to the crash. You look through
your logs at all?
> 5.) The other eth adaptor used to be error prone on the previous
> (slink) system, and therefore was not put to use with the Potato
> system ("eth0 transfer timed out 73654e0 vs (7352474)" or other such
> random characters reported to syslog)
>
> In reference to #1- recent reboots (which previously brought the
> network back up) have stopped bringing the network back up.
> Ping/telnet/etc works only to the machine's IP address and
> 'localhost'.... "no route to host" error is displayed for all others.
> With no network- the system has had over a day of uptime.
>
> My best bet I suppose is to buy a better (expensive) eth adaptor...
> but any thought would be appreciated before I part with 80 bucks for a
> 3com.
I'm very happy with my $16 10/100 Linksys card.
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