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SubjectNetwork problems with 2.1.6[45]
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Hello there.

I don't think this has been mentioned, but if it has, please pat me on my
head, point me in the right direction, and send me on my way.... =8]

With both the 2.1.64 and 2.1.65 kernels, my network interface has been broken.
It seems to work fine with 2.1.63. I'm using a NE2000-compatible ISA card
and the driver gets loaded as a module. During boot-up, the card is detected
fine; correct IO port and IRQ. The way I've got my system set up, I also
have an alias for the card. On boot-up, this alias is assigned and routes
through it are also assigned. IP-aliasing is also loaded as a module.

Everything seems to work fine, but no packets are sent out the interface. I
can ping the interface IP without problems, but when I try to ping another
machine on the local subnet, nothing happens. If I do an ifconfig on eth0,
the transmit and receive packets remain at zero, with the error packet number
steadily increasing. (I think the number of errors increased faster with
2.1.64, but I might be wrong.)

Thinking that the problem might stem from the IP-aliasing, I removed the
routes, interface, and module and tried again by ifconfig-ing eth0 and
re-adding the simple, non-alias routes, but the problem persisted.

If I boot into 2.1.63, there is no problem. From the syslog messages, there
is no indication that anything is broken.

Is there anything that I'm doing wrong or are there any known problems that
might affect this? (Is there any further data that I can provide to help fix
this problem?)

thanks,
pete




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