Re: Severe network slowdown
In article <[🔎] 405D95A0.5040201@leden.snt.utwente.nl>,
F.L. Tak <f.l.tak@leden.snt.utwente.nl> wrote:
>I'm having very strage network problems with Woody. A seemingly random
>amount of time after the machine has booted (I've seen it happen after a
>few days, but also after a few hours), all network traffic slows to
>almost a halt. If I then reboot, everything is back to normal, so I
>guess it't not a problem in the network. Also another machine, which is
>on the same local switch, has no such problems.
>The only thing I did to the standard Woody installation is build a
>2.4.21 kernel with make-kpkg configured with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 config
>(since I have a HPT272 IDE controller). Other than that, I have no idea
>what might cause this. Even if it is the kernel, I have no idea why.
>Also I don't even know where to look.
>Can anybody give me some pointers as to what might be the problem or
>where I should start looking? Also, are there any tools I might use to
>help diagnose the problem?
I've heard of this before where people had installed some (firewall?)
package that automatically/dynamically added iptables rules. If you
end up with thousands of rules, the network becomes dead slow.
Mike.
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