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...
