RE: FC3 with BEFSR11 Linksys router slow connection

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On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 17:58 -0500, Shawn Iverson wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:43 AM Bob Chiodini wrote:
> >
> >Shawn,
> >
> >I've been following this thread, I hope.  Maybe there is a hardware
> >problem with the Linksys or your NIC (or an incompatibility between
> >them).  Does you FC3 box behave the same regardless of the port it is
> >connected to on the Linksys?  Also,  does ethereal reveal anything
> >unusual?
> 
> The BEFSR11 has only one LAN port, unfortunately.  Ethereal shows
> duplicate ACKs outbound and out of order packets inbound but nothing
> else unusual.

I should have looked at their web site.  You did say earlier that
everything works as expected with the Linux box connected directly to
the modem?

> >All that said and rereading your other posts:  Your problem might point
> >to the NIC in the FC3 box since the same wiring and port work okay on
> >your XP box.  I assume it is a different machine.
> >
> 
> I would agree with you with one exception: so far no matter what I put
> as a NIC in the server, the same problem manifests itself. Furthermore,
> the same NIC when installed in the XP box works great. I believe that
> the problem is a combination of Fedora being compliant with networking
> standards (which really isn't a problem) and the Linksys not being
> compliant is some subtle way. As Rick Stevens pointed out in an earlier
> posting, XP contains hacks to circumvent issues perhaps like this one.
> I just can't seem to put my finger on the exact cause at this point.
> 

Got it.  Anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages?  Have you tried a
different slot for the NIC?  cat /proc/interrupts, what's shared with
the NIC?

Bob...



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