Re: Network slow with "new" kernel
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:50:45 +0100, debianuser.thegrue wrote:
> we have a strange problem here at our company:
>
> We have a few linux machines behind a firewall.
What kind of firewall? Iptables rules or some kind of commercial
appliance?
> When we start a download on the "newer" machines (kernel 2.6.32-5), the
> download starts fast (~3M/s), then quickly gets slower after about 10
> or 20 seconds and soon stalls completely or proceeds at ~3 Byte/s or
> something like that.
>
> On the older linux machines with kernel 2.6.26-2, or any other
> machines/OSes, everything is fine.
Computers with older kernels are running the same OS version than
machines with newer kernels? I mean, is the kernel version the only
difference between the machines that behave okay or are another factors
that come to play?
> Until recently, I thought that is a pure firewall and maybe debian
> related problem, but had (have) no clue why. Now we just found out that
> it is independent of the distribution, but depends on the kernel
> version. It might still be some firewall problem (because I never heard
> of this problem outside of our company).
>
> Have you any idea what's wrong?
I would try first to remove (not in the sense of "eliminating" but
"bypass") the firewall to discard the problem is generating from there.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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