Re: Network failure in RH9

From: reh (someone_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 10/28/03


Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:51:46 GMT

Scott Maxell wrote:

> 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.
>

Have sort of the same thing. I set the router MTU which helped. You can
set the MTU at 1500, or do the right thing and calculate the exact
number. google set mtu for more information.

Would like to hear more on this.

-- 
robert - redhat 9.0


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