Hi all, On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:01:27 +0300 Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Shimi, > > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:28 PM, shimi <linux...@shimi.net> wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, shimi <linux...@shimi.net> wrote: > >>> > >>> My bet is one of those: > >>> * bad Ethernet cable between one of the computers and the router/switch > >>> (you can verify by pinging the router from each one of the computers) > >>> * bad switch / home router (common ones where I personally encountered > >>> this: Edimax & TP-Link of any model...) > >>> > >> > >> Oh and, of course, more rare, but should be noted too: bad NIC on the > >> computer that was connected with Ethernet in the first place (because you > >> already tried a different NIC on the laptop when you switched from WiFi to > >> Ethernet)... > >> > > > > Well, the pings from the laptop to the router are fine, but those from > > the desktop machine to the router have many dropped packets. I tried > > to switch the Ethernet cable of the desktop machine to the one that is > > successfully used by the laptop, but there are still dropped packets > > there. Maybe there's a bad NIC on the desktop machine. > > > > Thanks for all your help. > > > > OK, I googled my card and "dropped packets" and got here: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713315 > > They suggest using the external driver from the e1000 project on > SourceForge.net . I'll try that. > Replying to myself again, I'd like to note that replacing the built-in driver for my NIC with the external driver from the e1000e package on http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/ , as suggested on the redhat.com bug report, fixed the symptoms of the problem (dropped packets) on the desktop machine, and I can now ssh comfortably and use remote gtk+ apps. Thanks everybody for your help - it proved to be very instrumental in my investigation and correction. You guys rock! Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ Mothers used to tell their children stories about XSLT to scare them. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
