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Re: timebomb
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Sun Jul 23 10:39:24 1995
From: srb@cuci.nl (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 12:28:15 +0200
In-Reply-To: Marcus Nilsson's message as of 1995 Jul 22 Sat 19:34.
<Pine.LNX.3.91.950722193204.6566A-100000@zen.kuai.se>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Marcus Nilsson <marcus@kuai.se> wrote:
>Well, We've tried 1.0.x and 1.1.x, and that was even worse. Especially
>1.1.x. We have about 1500 people having accounts here, and since we are
>using NFS, we have a very hevay networking load. We have a machine acting
>as a mail, news, and WWW-server and that one never hangs. So I think
>it's a matter of network load.
Have you ever checked if it is "just" the network device driver that
hangs?
You could check this by using a simple cron script that runs every
minute and pings two other hosts on the local network. If neither
of them respond, do a "ifconfig eth0 down" and bring it back up
again, don't forget to install all routes again (if any).
I've been experiencing this on one machine and shutting down and
restarting the network driver gets things going again most of the
time.
--
Sincerely, srb@cuci.nl
Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).
Father's Day Special at the local clinic -- Vasectomy!
