On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 04:44, hans schneidhofer wrote: > hi folk, > have a weird problem with my mdk9.0 box : > the system : > a 350 MHZ AMD > 256 MB-RAM > IDE-harddrives (3) > network: > Hersteller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > > Modell: RTL-8139 > > Kern Modul: rtl8139 > > Bus-Typ: PCI > ----------------- > Hersteller: 3Com Corporation > > Modell: 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] > > Kern Modul: 3c59x > > Bus-Typ: PCI > ----------------- > the RTL-8139 is connected to a DSL-Modem from Alcatel > the 3c59x is connected to the internat network. > > the DSL can only be driven with the pptp-modul, because my provider has only > this protocol-possibility. > > now - everytime, I call the connection, the system crashes after a few hours.
You didn't say what kernel modules were being loaded for the network cards. I'd start looking there first since I've found that Mandrake's probing process has led to the wrong nic module being loaded (especially in the case of the realtek nic). This can definitely freeze the machine in the way you describe. > what I have done to get a control for this behavior is : > have disabled as much as possibilties of services like: > firewall, ipchains, iptable, ssh i.e. > and I have made a remote login from another linuxbox - but during the crash I > lost the connection to the mdk-box. so I could do only a hard-reset. > > so only this protocol was activ. another test was - running the box with NOT > calling the pptp-modul for a few days, and the system was running stable of > about a week or so. no crash. > > is it possible, that this modul "pptp" has a bug, or do I have some > dependencies, which are a possible source for errors. if so, how can a make a > circle about this - how can I do more test, to get rid of that ? > > is anyone there, who have some experiences with such a behavior ? > > thanks a lot for helping me > bye > hans schneidhofer I hope that's it, good luck! John Christian Stoddart Caracas - Venezuela
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