Hallo, on my router which is serving as a gateway for my lan, the adsl connection is irregularly killed due to the following: (eth1 is a RTL8139C, kernel 2.4.4pre3, incl. latest rtl8139 driver 0.9.16) Apr 18 12:11:09 bello kernel: eth1: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. Apr 18 12:11:27 bello kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out Apr 18 12:11:27 bello kernel: eth1: Tx queue start entry 69 dirty entry 65. Apr 18 12:11:27 bello kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. Apr 18 12:11:27 bello kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000. (queue head) Apr 18 12:11:27 bello kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000. Apr 18 12:11:27 bello kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000. Apr 18 12:11:27 bello kernel: eth1: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. Apr 18 12:17:33 bello kernel: eth1: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. Apr 18 12:17:51 bello kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out Apr 18 12:17:51 bello kernel: eth1: Tx queue start entry 93 dirty entry 89. Apr 18 12:17:51 bello kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. Apr 18 12:17:51 bello kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000. (queue head) Apr 18 12:17:51 bello kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000. Apr 18 12:17:51 bello kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000. Apr 18 12:17:51 bello kernel: eth1: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. Apr 18 12:19:14 bello pppd[26928]: No response to 5 echo-requests Apr 18 12:19:14 bello pppd[26928]: Serial link appears to be disconnected. Apr 18 12:19:14 bello ip-down: Restored original /etc/resolv.conf Apr 18 12:19:20 bello pppd[26928]: Connection terminated. Apr 18 12:19:20 bello pppd[26928]: Connect time 11.2 minutes. Apr 18 12:19:20 bello pppd[26928]: Sent 5627 bytes, received 59949 bytes. Apr 18 12:19:20 bello pppoe[26929]: read (asyncReadFromPPP): Input/output error Apr 18 12:19:20 bello pppoe[26929]: Sent PADT Apr 18 12:19:20 bello pppd[26928]: Exit. Apr 18 12:19:20 bello adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. I have heard from some people who had this problem as well but there had been no real solution to that. Is there some way to debug this, get deeper to the origin of the problem? Any help would be FANTASTIC.. Thank you very much, Axel Siebenwirth - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/