A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I'm running potato with two nics (netgear FA310s, Tulip driver, modular) > runnign IP masquerading on them. The machine is a celeron/466 with 64 MB orf > RAM. > > The problem I get is this: the network drops away often. Usually, the > external interface (eth0) is fine, but the internal network goes awry all > the time. If I run pings to the internal machines, it will drop 1/4 - 1/2 of > the packets. And I get lots of dropped packets internally as well. > > I'm running the most potato updated IPmasq and tulip drivers on a 2.2.13 > kernel. > > Any ideas? I'm beginning to think that these NICs (or at least one of them) > is flaky. I've set up IPmasq the exact same way several times, without > issue.
Try a newer kernel - 2.2.13 has tulip.c v0.89 (a little over a year old). Try using 2.2.14 - it has a considerably newer tulip.c (v0.91g) that might work better for you. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
