From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I moved the location of my PC to a different lan segment, and there were no problems prior to this move. After moving the PC, there was only a brief amount of time where it could access the network until the connection would hang. Performing "ifconfig eth0 down" and "ifconfig eth0 up" and "route ..." the PC would be able to access the network again for a brief while (a few minutes) until the problem would resurface. Running a ping in one terminal, while running ifconfig in another terminal, indicates that even though the interface is up and that the routing was accurate, that the TX counters were not increasing. One thing that was interesting is that you could ping all day and not find the problem. Also HTTP or FTP traffic will start sucessfully but will soon cause the problem to appear. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use netgear model DS 104 hub 2. Use Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 32) nic 3. Static or DHCP configuration makes no difference, just try some large HTTP or FTP transfers for the problem to happen quickly 4. Try again without the netgear hub with the same configuration and observe that the problem goes away. Actual Results: Ifconfig indicates that even though routing was correct, the interface was up, and there is a ping running for the PC's gateway, that there was no TX packets sent. Expected Results: eth0 should have been transmitting packets Additional info: -------------------------- Nic in use (also netgear): -------------------------- Bus 0, device 15, function 0: Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 32). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe4ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7000000 [0xe70000ff]. ------------------------- /var/log/messages has lots of: ------------------------- Nov 8 04:45:42 dhcp-33-30 kernel: eth0: Setting half-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 0021. Nov 8 04:45:45 dhcp-33-30 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
The problem also happens when connecting to a Linksys NH108 model hub. The problem does NOT appear when connecting to a Linksys BEFSR81 "Broadband DSL router." I also found that pinging with the defaul packet size the problem would not cause the problem to appear, but pinging with 1508 byte packets causes the problem to manifest fairly quickly.
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