From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsjCt-0005xi-87 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:31:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6DFTIVT008845; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:29:18 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6DFP9tT026525 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:25:09 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.196]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dsit3-0004Ma-Mv for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:11:01 +0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so206221wri for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:11:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=VqF9UeRq5Qg/yiollAj+p0/9GTGkJf8/GKpEQajj4i6UKY37uV1IwGlsvJS0LkReri53DPEWtz40wsTS/M/EfssQfZNaLjonnpa3FtB5gedG1JgPwL9ehng/OsETdg6h1FOsEAx676a5HgRhPgYfqo4eKMjAKUDSFaGGOA2lNDg= Received: by 10.54.62.19 with SMTP id k19mr329815wra; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.125.2 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <12a67947050713081028cf55b8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:10:03 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Pedro_Saraiva?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] heavy packet loss problem (ifconfig?) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6DFP9tT026525 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j6DFTIVl008845 X-Archives-Salt: b401458b-9655-4b3e-b17c-cb010e81eae3 X-Archives-Hash: deef689baa93335ddef66dee213e027b Hello, I'm quite desperate and have tried just about anything. I'll try to explain it... I connect to the net through eth0 and have a masquerading through eth1 to my other computers, using shorewall. My server never had any problems of this kind and all was fine until a couple of days ago. I'm experiencing some heavy packet loss when pinging different hosts. I have isolated the problem (at least I think I did) and got to the conclusion that issuing a simple 'ifconfig eth1 down' and leaving eth0 up, the packet loss vanishes. Tests were made with all services down (shorewall, sshd, apache2, mysqld, proftpd, sendmail, ...) and with the network cable unplugged from eth1 (so no traffic is being generated through eth1 that could cause packet loss) Here are the statistics: - eth1 up - # ping -c 200 google.com --- google.com ping statistics --- 200 packets transmitted, 104 received, 48% packet loss, time 208227ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev =3D 152.388/229.520/2016.847/279.805 ms, pipe 3 - eth1 down - # ping -c 200 google.com --- google.com ping statistics --- 200 packets transmitted, 200 received, 0% packet loss, time 199175ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev =3D 147.197/169.978/193.949/8.384 ms Both network cards are using the same chipset (RLT8139) loaded as a module in the kernel (2.6.11-hardened-r13). I have tried to replace the network card (with one also using RLT8139) and changing it from IRQ but with no effect. Please help, I've runned out of ideas... Thanks in advance! Jos=E9 Pedro --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list