Hi, I've just installed Fedora Core 5: Linux dgb33 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 #1 Mon Sep 11 01:17:06 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux I am experiencing one of the most slippery problems I've ever encountered. In short, data transfer from the internet stops after some initial traffic. I searched FAQs, Google, forums, ... but nothing remotely similar comes up. Examples: * Opening a web page: the page is displayed only partly, the build up simply stops somewhere in the middle * Doing a CVS command: a small update succeeds, a 'cvs update' over an entire tree fails after updating a few files, or even before that. A single file in a single directory succeeds. * ssh to our web server: after a few commands, sometimes in the middle of an 'ls' listing, everything stops. I need to kill the ssh process * pirut: If I select too many packages (more than a few), things stop, in the dependency checking or earlier or later. What does work is most yum work, like 'yum update'. I just finished a 160 MB yum update without problems I've switched off SELinux, all firewalls (we trust everyone withing and distrust everyone outside the office) and went through every setup file that seemed to be possibly related to this. I'm rather convinced this is a Fedora-5 specific problem, because: 1) We have a network of many different distros, including Fedora 3, Ubuntu, SuSE 8-10.1, both 32/64 bit machines, there's a Mac, a Solaris machine, and even 3 M$ windows machines ( ) which never give anything like this 2) This installation is a replacement for a SuSE 10.0 installation - thus, on the same machine, the SuSE distro had no problem. We just installed FC5 because we want to support as many Linux variants as possible (we have an Open Source software project). At the moment I can work from this machine by running firefox/thunderbird, CVS and ssh/ftp to the web server on another machine, everything not needing intenet access is fine. Therefore, network traffic from within our intranet is 100% OK. Guesses: * There is something cutting off network traffic after a certain amount of bytes is transferred from inside to outside * The limiting is per-process. That is why yum succeeds: it probably spawns a new process for each package get, and the get only generates a lot of traffic inward. Bert Bril (see http://opendtect.org [1] Links: ------ [1] http://opendtect.org -- This is an email sent via the webforum on https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=116908&topic_id=27312&forum=24#forumpost116908 If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and/or blame bert.bril@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
