On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 10:11, Eric Doutreleau wrote: > i have a lab with fedora core 4 machine with a network card > 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet > Controller (rev 02) > > and from time to time the network seems not working anymore. > > after a few second the network goes up again. > > The result is that i lose about 30% of packet. > > when i boot windows on the same machine i have the same problem. > > i boot different version of kernel of FC4 but with no luck. I have the > same behaviour. > > here is the result of fping > 157.159.15.229 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 81/55/32%, min/avg/max = 0.27/0.77/8.09 > > and all the machine of my labs have the same behaviour. > has anybody already seen that kind of problem? > it s a bit annoying as the network become really unusable. > > thanks in advance for any help You may need to look at the cables used and the switch/hub you are connected to since this seems to be a problem regardless of which OS you are using. Once you have eliminated the cabling and switch as possible issues it is time to try a different NIC. But 9 times out of 10 it will be a cable problem.
