Re: What's up with the IP stack?

From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy_at_siliconlandmark.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 14:03:54 -0400 (EDT)
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Josef Karthauser wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 02:48:01PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> > It seems Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > > I've just built and installed a new kernel, the first since Aug 6th.
> > > There appears to be a problem with the IP stack.  What happens is that
> > > everything is fine for a few hours, and then the IP stack stops working.
> > > I can no longer ping anything on the local network, my default route
> > > drops out (which is probably dhclient's doing).  Perhaps it is ARP that
> > > is broken, it's hard to tell.  All I know is that I need to reboot to
> > > make it work again.
> > >
> > > Is anyone else experiencing this kind of problem?
> >
> > Do you have dummynet included in the kernel ?
> > That has been broken for me since sam's latest commit as a backout
> > of ip_dummynet.c fixes the problem for me...
> >
>
> No, I've not got dummynet in there.  My current kernel config is:

I experienced this a week ago. I found that ifconfig'ing the interface
down and back up again "fixed" the problem. I've since reverted to a
kernel compiled on September 25th.

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >
Received on Sun Oct 12 2003 - 09:03:58 UTC

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