I have 2 linux boxes connected via coax to an ISDN router. The
ISDN routers has been annoying me for longer than the problem I'm
about to describe; it seems to hit 40 - 50 % packet loss for brief
perdiods of time, and my boxes don't recover well. This happened
on my original setup with 2 3c509 cards ( 1 on each machine ).
Both machines had some timeout problems with the 3c509s.
The 3c509s were borrowed, and I had to give one back to the owner. I
replaced it with a PCI ne2000 clone from Best Buy, thinking I just
needed something cheap...
I can only get it to detect on the 2.1.x kernels....do I need to give
more info to the 2.0.x kernels? I've been doing some big renderings,
and the 2.1 kernels are getting frustrated...
More intersting question:
After the PCI ne2000 was installed, I noticed this (2.1.29/30 kernels):
Apr 7 10:08:16 jericho kernel: TCPv4 bad checksum from c726ae80:0050 to da1311c0:3a0e, len=1480/1480/1500
Apr 7 10:08:17 jericho kernel: TCPv4 bad checksum from a30829c0:0050 to da1311c0:38c1, len=249/249/269
Apr 7 10:08:17 jericho kernel: TCPv4 bad checksum from a30829c0:0050 to da1311c0:38f5, len=247/247/267
[ etc ]
These come often and in big spurts. The hex ip addresses always corelate
to a session that is having problems...
My question, than is:
1) Do the 2.0 kernels not log TCP checksum errors, and I've been getting
errors before the PCI ne2000/2.1 kernels, and not noticing? I've
gotten 20 ICMP checksum errors in total on the 2.0.28/ISA card machine
since Jan. 22; nothing like above.
or...
2) Is this a 2.1 kernel prob?
or...
3) Is my card shitty/broken/dumb?
I'm really hoping number 1 is the case, since that would imply that
the ISDN line has a problem corrupting packets.
Again, sorry if some of this has been covered. I'd really appreciate
your help! It gets frustrating looking at 4 windows, all frozen...
-Erik
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