Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: >hi larry, > >im responding to the list on this so that the others >know you are not really the *troll* we thought you >were ... > > >--- Larry Blodgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:44:46 -0600 >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>From: Larry Blodgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>Dianne, >> >>Thanks for your concern. >> >>I have an ECS motherboard with a standard RTL >>ethernet pic card. The >>system has operated successfully on 8.1 and the the >>three beta >>releases of 8.2. Believe it or not I do think >>mandrake is one of the >>best two distros. I have actually contributed to >>the PPC version and >>I am a long time paid member of the club. >> >>I guess I was little upset when the fresh install >>took my whole >>network down. >> > >i still dont see how a fresh install could bring a >whole network down. i dont really see any logical >explanation for this. im a network engineer. not so >good but i know the basics. are you saying your whole >network freezed ? meaning, all the others on your >network were affected after installing mandrake 8.2? >how is this server connected to the network? hubs? >switch? > >>I would be amazed if a person was >>not upset at taking >>down a network. It has never happened before. I >>have many machines >>running 8.1 with good success and I consider >>Mandrake to be excellent >>quality. That is the reason it shocked me. >> > >yeah, you still didnt give us details of how the >network went down. > >>Another guy answer me off list and said the problem >>maybe the expert >>install and that he had trouble with it. >> > >i never had problems with my network when i install >new distros. i dont think just installing ANY distro >could bring down the network ... unless your card is >faulty and *spamming* the network with unwanted >packets. > >>I have >>always expert >>installed due to the special needs of the gcc >>compiler. >> >>The only thing that makes this a special install is >>the expert mode. >>Beyond the install was quick and easy. The ethernet >>card was >>correctly recognized and everything seemed fine, >>just as you would >>expect and then the network crashed. I am going to >>try a recommended >>install on a small network. >> > >so, you were able to to install the distro and your >network connection(just for this machine) crashed? im >really confused whats the situation there. anyways, >well be glad to help you if you can give more info. > >cheers, > > > > >===== >This email is for the above named person/s only. Usual legal >bullshit covering my own ass applies. Be prepared to get >fucked if you dare misuse the above information. If you >receive this message in error, your existence in this world >must also be an error. Please go and die! You must not >communicate this message to anybody else or I'll send >my friends to look for you. Death to all stupid signatures! > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� >http://movies.yahoo.com/ > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Sure it is possible to take a network down with a single machine. There is a program called macof which does a neat job if not limited to its intended purpose which is to flood the local with random MAC addresses until the switches fail open in repeating mode.
ECS is certainly not gilt-edged hardware, and one can expect more than an average share of problems on something made by _any_ member of the PCChips group, but I have noticed much better performance on 8.2 with most ECS junk than on 8.1 or the betas. No big changes were allowed from RC1 to final. Even a new kernel which solved a subtle Samba problem concerning shares whose filenames were in 16-bit or higher character encodings was held out, because we did not have time to thoroughly test it. Based on the behavior you reported, I would look for a shrieking network card needing replacement first. Try the network with a different net card, and make sure you kept ACPI turned off. You might also try booting with linux noapic Because it may be a faulty interrupt prioritizer on your board, and 8.2 DOES use apic in the UP kerbnel (we had too many people with multiprocessing rigs populated with Promise or HPT cards who could not even install 8.1 and needed apic enabled in the install kernel). Civileme
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