i recently installed
a new debian box (kernel 2.4.18smp) on a tyan200t
with 2 p3 1ghz
cpus.
the box is one of
our customer routers and runs iptables to trace the traffic
on several ips. the
two onbard intel ethernet interfaces are connected
one to the backbone,
the other to the customer switches.
the problem is, that
the bos runs into serval kernel apic errors and sometimes
when the load gets
higher the second interface crashes and becomes unusable.
the only solution i
found for this is disabling apic at all. the box runs stable
so far, but the
second cpu idles at 99,9%. this is not the way i want it to
go.
does anyone now
about an other way to fix this problem. bios update, kernel
patch, some other
hack, special apic configuration, additional network cards?
your help would be
much appreciated,
thanks
peter
