From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:48:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:48:28 -0500 Received: from cc78409-a.hnglo1.ov.home.nl ([212.120.97.185]:1924 "EHLO dexter.hensema.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:48:26 -0500 From: Erik Hensema Subject: Re: Entire LAN goes boo with 2.5.64 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:58:56 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <195124534734.20030306103604@tnonline.net> <185124756546.20030306103945@tnonline.net> Reply-To: erik@hensema.net User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Anders Widman (andewid@tnonline.net) wrote: > >> Hello, > >> Trying out the 2.5.64 kernel to try to solve some IDE specific >> problems with 2.4.x kernels. Now I have another problem. We have a >> Windows LAN and a Windows XP with WinRoute Pro as gateway. > >> When booting the linux-machine with the 2.5.64 kernel the windows >> machine goes to 100% cpu and the switch (Dlink) goes crazy (loosing >> link, other machines get 100k/s instead of 10-12MiB/s etc). > >> I compiled the 2.5.64 with as few options as possible, no >> netfilter, or IPSec or similar stuff. > >> What can be the problem? > > Forgot to say I am using a Intel Pro100+ NIC and I have tested with > both the Becker driver and the Intel driver. I've seen something similar [1] happen to a LAN with one Windows XP machine running vcool: http://vcool.occludo.net/ . This is also available for Linux (http://vcool.occludo.net/VC_Linux.html). Are you running this patch or a similar one? [1] all machines were seeing frame errors on packets > 250 bytes; it was a 10 mbit coax lan. -- Erik Hensema