Network failure in RH9

From: Scott Maxell (smaxell[nospam)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:32:08 GMT

Apologies if you saw a similar post in another group, but I seem to have
reached a dead end with the one response that I got to this question. I am
running RH9 on a PIII 733 system with (among others) two 120gb hard drives
that I am trying to set up as a fileserver. The problem is, any *extensive*
use of the network brings the connection to that computer down (IE a large
file transfer, mounting one of the hard drives via NFS on another system).
I am able to mount the disk with NFS on another system - but if I try to get
a directory I lose internet access (cable modem), cannot ping other
computers on the same network etc. This also seems to happen if a large
file is sent over the lan either to a system on the lan or the internet. I
can ifdown the connection and ifup - and things work fine until I try to to
do something that transfers large amounts of data over the network. I seem
to have no problems of this type on another system connected to the same
lan - a laptop with a wireless network card. I have replaced the NIC with
another to see if that was the problem - same thing happens. I also
wondered if it might not be the DHCP lease, but noting the time of DHCP
lease expiration from the router seems to show no correlation with the
times that this happens.

If anyone can give me some pointers on where to look for errors that might
give a better understanding of the problem I would appreciate it. I would
kinda like to be able to share my movies/mp3's with other systems on my lan
or over the internet. 

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