Re: 2.6.29 Networking Problems

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Thursday 26 March 2009, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>Alright, so I upgraded to 2.6.29 and had all sorts of issues with my
>networking (x86-64 system, both forcedeth and 3c59x NICs).  At first I
>thought my forcedeth NIC was dying or something, so I disabled it and
>installed a trusty 3com.  When it started acting up also, I began to
>suspect software, and some searching led me to the thread (and
>eventually the patch) at:
>
>  http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/14465/
>
>So, I applied this patch to my local kernel, and my test (transferring
>13 GiB of data over the LAN) now can be run repeatedly.  Prior to
>applying the patch, I'd start the transfer and it'd go for about 20
>seconds and all transfer would stop, and ping would not return errors,
>just nothing.
>
>Any chance that this patch will land in 2.6.29.1?  Or other code that
>fixes the same problem?  I haven't tried it against Linus' kernel tree
>yet because I probably won't run that kernel again until at least -rc2
>or -rc3, so apologies if this issue is already fixed in the trunk.
>
>	--- Mike

I'll second this on 2.6.29.  Asus M2N SLI Deluxe mobo, quad core phenom, 4GB 
ram.

When I woke up this morning I had no network.  Ifconfig said it was up and ok, 
but I couldn't even ping my router.  So I went to another machine and the 
router etc was fine.  Restarting the networking did not help.  The leds on the 
mobo jacks were on so the MCP55's hadn't been killed.  A reboot that took a 
good piece of an hour cuz it had timed out on 1.5 TB of drives and had to fsck 
them, and its been fine since.

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