On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:32:00PM +0200, Mikael Leivisk? wrote: > OK first of all I'm not really sure if this is the place but was told by > Dave Dillow to send to the netdev kernel mailing list. So that's what > I'm doing :) > > I tried searching the mailing lists and didn't find anything that seemed > relevant, it is possible I missed something the archives are huge... > > Following is the mail I sent originally: > > I've run into something of a strange problem lately, I have a network > card that runs on the Vortex/Boomerang driver. I ran the 2.6.16 kernel > without any issues, and later switched to 2.6.22 because I couldn't get > my IPSEC tunnel working with 2.6.16 for some reason (didn't find the > right switches in menuconfig). And everything was seemingly working fine > but soon after my ISP got some problems and they said they had to > replace some hardware somewhere along my route and now when I access the > internet (the machine is setup as router/web-file-mail-server with this > card as the external interface) I get dreadfully slow speeds, I'll be > lucky to get 10KB/s on a 10MB/s link.
Does this mean that the driver worked well with 2.6.22 befor the hardware changes of your ISP? What did they change? > But the funny thing is if I switch > to the 2.6.16 kernel, WHAM I get 700KB/s no sweat... The kernel > configurations are otherwise almost exactly the same bar tickless and > some switches in network options to get ipsec... The only thing I do is > change the kernel and things work... > > So my questions are, > Has there been any recent changes to the drivers for the card lately? > (between .16 and .22) There were some changes, your problem could be related to one of them. > Or any changes in the network infrastructure that could be the cause of it? > Or is there some other switch in the config that could be the cause of this? > Or is it my ISP's hardware that's not playing nice? > Or any other ideas as to what might be the cause. > > I've posted the respective kernel configs, and lspci output and my > cpuinfo on http://www.zero-kelvin.org/pub/kern/ > > If there is any other info that you need I'll gladly provide it assuming > I can get my hands on it :) There were some duplex related fixes on 3c59x recently, could you please try whether your problem persist in 2.6.23-rc6? Steffen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
