Hello Pascal and Russell, > Roland Rosier a écrit : > > I get a huge number of lines in my syslog saying: > > > > Dec 27 12:51:54 xxxxx pptp[5043]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:414]: > > buffering packet 20895 (expecting 20894, lost or reordered) > > 1) It could be a packet loss issue at the link layer level. Run a packet > sniffer such as tcpdump or wireshark/tshark on the ethernet interface > connected to the modem and capture the GRE traffic (IP proto 47). Then > check whether the expected packet numbers reported in syslog during the > capture are just reordered or actually missing. > > 2) Check the counters in the output of ifconfig for that interface too. > > 3) If everything seems fine at the link layer level, try to disable the > firewall.
It would appear that the issue was with the actual on-board Ethernet. I disabled my new motherboard's on-board Ethernet and installed an old (and known-working-with-Linux) PCI 3COM 3c905. With this new card, I got full-speed downloads and no packet loss using the kernel driver 3c95x. I then noticed that my Motherboard was one version down on the BIOS updates available and that the BIOS update mentioned the LAN. So I updated my Motherboard's BIOS and removed the 3COM card. I now seem to be getting full-speed downloads and no packet loss using the kernel driver r8169. For reference, my Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H Revision 1.3 and the on-board Ethernet is an RTL8111D. Thanks for all your help and suggestions. Regards, Roland Rosier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/snt134-w29851b743d5dc1a2bd6c1e97...@phx.gbl