On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 03:08:01PM +0100, Thomas Seeling via blfs-support wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> >>> Anybody else seeing periodic "stalls" in networking with 5.4
> >>> kernels and the r8169 driver ?
>
> I'm using the latest kernel (5.4.6 as of yesterday) and I can't confirm.
> Have you considered it's a problem with a switch or similar
> infrastructure device? I had hardware problems with some cheap GBit home
> switches giving up, showing exactly such problems - i.e. random network
> hiccups. Repowering the switch helped, but I replaced it eventually soon
> after it started to happen more often.
>
> Tschau...Thomas
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I hadn't thought about that. I had swapped the skylake with my new
home server (athlon 200ge), but I literally swapped the positions of
the cases and connected to the cables which were in those positions.
The new server was working fine for at least two weeks before that,
the old server was running but barely used - the kvm switch needs
something working on its first position before other positions are
enabled.
The other machine (ryzen3) had the cabling sorted out just before
this happened (remove some of the cat's cradle of old cables and
replacements [PS/2 connectors break when unplugged/replugged], add
hdmi conenction to new monitor) and it's possible that I'm now using
a different ethernet cable (without changing the switch conenction).
I can see that a flakey cat5 cable might happen, but I will be very
surprised if it would intermittently drop out and then reconnect
with no physical movement of things at either end. I might have to
keep an eye on the switches :-(
ĸen
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