Bug 57813 - Using tcpdump causes networking to fail (orinoco card)
Summary: Using tcpdump causes networking to fail (orinoco card)
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-12-24 14:56 UTC by Kambiz Aghaiepour
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-01-28 05:20:34 UTC
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Description Kambiz Aghaiepour 2001-12-24 14:56:31 UTC
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Description of problem:
Running RHL 7.2 on Dell Latitude CPi 266 with 160MB ram. Wireless
networking with Lucent/Orinoco silver with Residential Gateway 1000.
Networking works fine until I run tcpdump for a short while. The failure is
not immediate, but takes less than 1 minute to manifest.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.In one window, run "ping otherhost"
2.In another window, run "tcpdump icmp"
3.For a little while, both windows show appropriate output. Then, without
cause and without any error messages what-so-ever, the laptop cannot see
the rest of the network. No ping, no nothing, no error messages (at least
none that I saw)

The system is up2date, i.e. running kernel-2.4.9-13, and registered in RHN
and running updated RPMs.

	

Actual Results:  In order to bring the laptop online again, I had to run:

  service pcmcia restart



Expected Results:  I wish using tcpdump wouldn't knock me off the air. :-)


Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-01-28 05:19:57 UTC
Apologies for the lack of response.

This is probably a bug with the kernel drivers. Please reopen if this
happens on a more current distribution.


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