Re: Entire LAN goes boo with 2.5.64

[Anders Widman]

Tried  with  a  Realtek  8139B and the Intel Pro100+ adapter. The same
thing   happens.   The   LAN   goes  crazy  and all programs trying to
access or use the LAN on the Linuxbox goes super-slow or crashes.

I am rather lost when it comes to where I should begin to look.

Have not compiled in IPX, network filtering and most other things. The
only  network  card  I  have compiled in is the Rtl8139 and the Becker
Intel Pro100+ driver.

Here is my net config: http://tnonline.net/conf.png

I  have  not compiled in ACPI or APM or APIC. And they are disabled in
BIOS too.

//Anders

> I've had this happen once, but with a 2.4 kernel. I had compiled in IPX
> and configured it for autodiscovery of frame type. On boot, it would
> flip back and forth between two different types rather fast (as fast as
> the 100base NIC could do it), freaking out every piece of networking
> equipment and every computer. See if you have IPX compiled in. 
> Otherwise, run ethereal or another sniffer to see what exactly the 
> network traffic is; that might be helpful.

> Alexander

> Anders Widman 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?
>> 
>> 
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