[NTLUG:Discuss] ethernet connection and file transfer woes...

[Jay Urish]

This sounds exactly like the problem I was having. (I hope I fixed it.)

I have a p3/1.0 with an intel nic hooked to a netopia r9100 router. The 
router has a 8 port hub built in.
The problem is that the ports are all 10mb half duplex. I think every time 
my nic tried to auto negotiate the whole thing would go out to lunch.



I have replaced the patch cable and I went to a 3com nic.

My server is up this morning!!!! WHOPPPE!!!!



At 09:48 AM 6/4/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi - need some help
>
>I'm running Redhat 7.3 and trying to transfer files on my internal
>network. The problem I have occurs consistently whether I am transferring
>to/from a WinXP machine or an OSX machine. Problem occurs using samba, ftp
>or atalkd. What happens is that after a non-specific amount of time, the
>connection dies. I've tested it repeatedly and it does not seem to occur
>after a certain amount of time or data transferred. It also does not
>depend on how much data I'm transferring or what type of files I am
>transferring. What happens is the Redhat machine loses the ethernet
>connection -  no route to host. I cannot get to anything on the internal
>network, or beyond the router. When I look thru the samba logs I see lots
>of connection reset by peer events occurring at the time of the dropped
>signal. When I look at the messages file I see this at the time of the
>drop:
>
>Jun  4 06:22:58 waynemanor kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed
>out
>Jun  4 06:23:30 waynemanor last message repeated 4 times
>Jun  4 06:24:10 waynemanor last message repeated 5 times
>
>Someone had suggested the problem might exist with my eth0 settings. Here
>is my modules.conf:
>
>alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>alias eth0 tulip
>alias sound-slot-0 es1371
>post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
> >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null
>2>&1 || :
>alias usb-controller usb-uhci
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated - having all my machines
>networked is not so much fun when I can't transfer anything between them.
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>dave
>
>
>
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Jay Urish
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