Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardwarerelated?

Frank de Lange
2001-01-12T21:06:10Z

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:51:36PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> great. Back when i had the same problem, flood pinging another host (on
> the local network) was the quickest way to reproduce the hang:
>
> ping -f -s 10 otherhost
>
> this produced an IOAPIC-hang within seconds.

Apart from killing streaming audio and interactive network use, nothing hangs.
As soon as the ping flood is stopped, audio streams on and ssh sessions are
useable again. So, it seems to fix it...

Frank
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