Hi,
Anyone faced this problem before? My network dies a slow death. It is
wired
to the lan via a hub, 24 hrs a day and I have seen that during/after
transfers
and at some times, seems just due to aging of the connection, the
transfer
rate slows down from 500kbps to 1-2 bps [average] and pinging times drop
from 2 ms to anything between 50-2000 ms [irregular].
Has anyone faced this problem before? [I have not had time to manually
handle
the thing AND since the hub was restarted last night, I have not been
able to
check the current status of the network.]
Also, do give me help/pointers towards what is the process that one
should
have for resetting network? My guess is..
1. Boot up with a network aware kernel.
2. Detect card
3. Load module for the card [what is the command-line for this?]
4. Initialise card [/etc/rc.d/network start ?]
5. Set up routing table [time to start 'route' ?]
6. Start routing daemon [/etc/rc.d/routed start ?]
Am I right so far? Will this enable 'pinging' etc to the connected
machines?
So far [the people in my hostel, where the machine is] reboot the
machine
when they experience this problem [very dirty way to do this] but I try
to
find my way through when I am there... futile so far.
Can someone spare a couple of moments for this? To convey the correct
sequence of events for restarting teh networking services.
[Card = Realtek fast ethernet 8139 and modules correspondingly loaded,
router etc told correctly. The net was really fine for last month or so]
Rohit
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