2.4.5-ac14: machine responds to _every fifth_ ping!

Andreas K. Huettel (Andreas.Huettel@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE)
Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:09:56 +0200 (CEST)


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Dear all,

I am using a box with 2.4.5-ac14, 3c59x eth0 driver, 3c905C network card.
When working with it, the network has been behaving ok. Now I ping it from
a remote location, and I see the following strange effect:

After a few seconds, only every fifth ping gets back! (quite
exactly, reproducible). Ping output attached.

Another box on the same hub responds totally normal, so it is no network
congestion. I cannot ssh in at the moment, unfortunately. I tried several
different ping source machines, running 2.2.14(SuSE71), 2.2.14 SMP
(vanilla+int.crypto), 2.2.19, and a SPARCstation - they all give basically
the same result.

(Well, besides the target machine is one of these still constantly logging
"clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard".)

lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]: Unknown device 1647
(rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5247
00:02.0 USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB (rev 03)
00:04.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev
10)
00:06.0 USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge
[Aladdin IV]
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink]
(rev 74)
00:11.0 Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M7101 PMU
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 (rev a1)

I hope this helps fixing some bug.

best regards, Andreas

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