From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:00:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:00:14 -0500 Received: from 167-ZARA-X31.libre.retevision.es ([62.82.236.167]:27397 "EHLO head.redvip.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:00:04 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6259AF.81DF16EE@zaralinux.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 03:00:15 +0100 From: Jorge Nerin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-prerelease-diff i586) X-Accept-Language: es-ES, es, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank de Lange CC: Ingo Molnar , Manfred Spraul , Linus Torvalds , dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox Subject: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardwarerelated? In-Reply-To: <20010112214642.A27809@unternet.org> <20010112220523.C27809@unternet.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Frank de Lange wrote: > > 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 I do have a 3c503 and a ne2k-pci both of them use the 8390, I can hang the ne2k-pci easily by doing a ping -f, bigger packet size => early the hang. But I cannot hang the 3c503 by doing this. Now with 2.4.0 the ne2k-pci behaviour is that: doing a ping -f works for some amount of time, then stops for a BIG amount of time (various minutes), and then it works again (it seems), but at a much slower speed, and if you test it with normal ping (ping host) you don't get replies. The packets really go down to the wire and I even got replies. but I don't receive it. Previous versions of 2.4.0-testX caused ne2k-pci to hang and remain hanged until reboot. System: Mb Gigabyte 586dx, 2x200MMX, 96Mb RAM, -- Jorge Nerin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/