Re: Possible network issue in 2.6.8.1

[Paolo Ornati]

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 15:55, Joris Neujens wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We've got a weird problem at our university network.  Since we upgraded to
> kernel 2.6.8 our download rate never gets higher than 10kB/sec.  Upload
> remains at original rate.  This problem does not occur with previous
> kernels (works fine again after downgrading to 2.6.7, without changing
> anything at the kernel config).
> 
> There are no speed issues when transfering on the LAN, only when
> downloading something from the internet
> 
> We have ruled out the following:
> Network source is slow (we were testing with the same FTP server all the
> time, from which we normally download at 10MB/sec)
> We tested with 3 different systems and network cards, and they all have
> the same problem, and only with kernel 2.6.8
> 
> any thoughts?

http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/

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	Paolo Ornati
	Gentoo Linux (kernel 2.6.8-gentoo-r3)
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