Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262904AbUDEP5O (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:57:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262909AbUDEP5O (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:57:14 -0400 Received: from out009pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.131]:11505 "EHLO out009.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262904AbUDEP5L (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:57:11 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Organization: Organization: None, detectable by casual observers To: Hugo Mills , Carlos Fernandez Sanz , Wakko Warner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 3com issues in 2.6.5 Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:57:08 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <003301c41b18$38ff7f90$1530a8c0@HUSH> <000401c41b1f$d2cf65c0$1530a8c0@HUSH> <20040405152834.GA11853@carfax.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040405152834.GA11853@carfax.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404051157.08567.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out009.verizon.net from [151.205.9.48] at Mon, 5 Apr 2004 10:57:10 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2092 Lines: 50 On Monday 05 April 2004 11:28, Hugo Mills wrote: >On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 05:08:16PM +0200, Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote: >> > > module with both interfaces up, but obviously as soon as I do >> > > that they dissapear - I assume this is the intended 2.6 >> > > behaviour). >> > >> > Let me ask you, are you noticing slowness sending or receiving? >> > I'm >> >> having >> >> Yes, this is why I started to look at the problem. >> (slow as in 100 kb/s in a 100 Mbit/s LAN). > > I'm reasonably certain that there's something wrong somewhere > with the 2.6 network subsystem. I've been getting _very_ slow > network performance with a PCI natsemi card -- characterised by > repeated netdev watchdog timeouts under any load heavier than an > ssh terminal session. > > Hugo. I'd be more inclined to blame it on the card driver, Hugo. I have a nightly rsync session that scans and updates a mirror of several partitions on my firewall box to a disk in this box, and it hasn't generated any error messages yet, over about 20 2.6.x kernels, currently running 2.6.5. I get an 100% normal email from rsync every night, but no errors are being logged. Its a 100base T network, driver 8139too on this end, an 8129 based card on the other end, and with an old (I think, its been 6 years) dlink FA-310 (ne2k-pci) on the other card serveing the dsl connection. The firewall itself is connected to the dsl thru a second 10-baseT card and a router with the firewall connecting the 2 cards. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/