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From: Mike Slinn <mslinn@zamples.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:09:28 +0000
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [LARTC] ssh and cs LAG]
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Hariett,

Switching to the 2.4 kernel is not an option as this is a production server.

The machine has a dual Intel PRO/1000 NIC.

The machine usies grub, not lilo, but that doesn't really matter.  Not 
sure if APIC is an issue or not.

Thanks for your help.

Mike


Hariett Jones wrote:

> Got some solutions myself.
>
> LAG is caused by :
> NETDEV WATCHDOG eth0 timeout
>
> this is caused bacause of problems with rtl8139 network card in kernel 
> 2.6.x
>
> Solutions :
> 1.add in lilo.conf : append="noapic"
> 2.turn apic off in bios
> 3.if u have 2 rtl8139 cards, then exchange one with some other card 
> type (chipset)
>
> btw. all above was found in various polish forums, but none has worked 
> for me. im switching kernel back to 2.4.22, and will report later .
>
>
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