Scandisk

[Warren Togami]

This DOES sound familiar.

What brand and model is your network card?

After transferring many packets, does your "ifconfig" output show anything
like this?

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:4C:69:6E:75:79
          inet addr:24.25.251.205  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1972759 errors:3524 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1055679 errors:827 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:12368 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:286281710 (273.0 Mb)  TX bytes:99777066 (95.1 Mb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1000

Can you post the output of:
ifconfig
lsmod

Any number of errors, especially those that build up over time are usually
the fault of a crappy or failing network card.  Sometimes a bad cable in
conjunction with certain cards can cause this too.  The Wiki has an
incomplete list of crappy hardware that you should avoid.
http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php?CrapHardware

You should especially avoid those CNET brand network cards at Byteware.  Out
of the 12 that I have bought over the years, 10 of them have eventually
failed with tons of errors, spitting out tons of erroneous MAC addresses on
outgoing packets.  I have heard of other people with other models of CNET
10/100 cards having the exact same problem.

A few cards that I buy these days that seem to work fine...
3Com 3c905/920 - $50+
Linksys LNE100TX v4.1 tulip kernel driver - $25
SMC EZNet 10/100 rtl1391too kernel driver - $22
DLink 10/100 has the same controller as the SMC card, but I haven't tested
it.

The really cheap SMC card comes with many name brand PC's these days, so I'd
think it is pretty safe.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Kanno" <pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 4:07 PM
Subject: [luau] Re: Scandisk


> Hi Warren,
>
> I dunno if my last reply came though..I don't see it. But anyway, t seems
> like the problem i'm having has something to do with my network. For some
odd
> reason, when I disable the network, Linux runs fine, as soon as I enable
it,
> Linux runs sloow again (my 200mhz runs faster).  Any ideas/suggestions?
>
> thanks,
> Rodney
>