Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:58:18 +0100 | From | Anders Widman <> | Subject | Re: Entire LAN goes boo with 2.5.64 |
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> Sounds like a bpdu storm, are you somehow looping the network?
Not that I am aware of.. Running only one 8 port switch. Works good with the 2.4.x kernels, but not with 2.5.. very odd.
//Anders
> -----Original Message----- > From: Anders Widman [mailto:andewid@tnonline.net] > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 6:02 AM > To: Erik Hensema > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; erik@hensema.net > Subject: Re: Entire LAN goes boo with 2.5.64
>> Anders Widman (andewid@tnonline.net) wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>> >>>> Trying out the 2.5.64 kernel to try to solve some IDE > specific >>>> problems with 2.4.x kernels. Now I have another problem. We have > a >>>> Windows LAN and a Windows XP with WinRoute Pro as gateway. >>> >>>> When booting the linux-machine with the 2.5.64 kernel the > windows >>>> machine goes to 100% cpu and the switch (Dlink) goes crazy > (loosing >>>> link, other machines get 100k/s instead of 10-12MiB/s etc). >>> >>>> I compiled the 2.5.64 with as few options as possible, > no >>>> netfilter, or IPSec or similar stuff. >>> >>>> What can be the problem? >>> >>> Forgot to say I am using a Intel Pro100+ NIC and I have tested > with >>> both the Becker driver and the Intel driver.
>> I've seen something similar [1] happen to a LAN with one Windows XP >> machine running vcool: http://vcool.occludo.net/ . This is also >> available for Linux (http://vcool.occludo.net/VC_Linux.html). Are you >> running this patch or a similar one?
> Nope, no vcool or anything similar. But it is very odd that the switch > would go crazy too!
>> [1] all machines were seeing frame errors on packets > 250 bytes; it >> was a 10 mbit coax lan.
> Using 100mbit switched network.
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