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while I'm downloading big files on my debain box I'm getting strange network behaviour. The files will pause downloading, and only keep downloading if I'm pinging something. The ping times are included below, and suggest a whole lot of ethernet packet collisions, but ifconfig (also below) tells me that there are no collisions. The times tend to go: 3s,2s,1s,0s,3s,2s,1s,0s,3s,2s,1s,0s.... The network card and network were working properly...until I upgraded to debian from Red Hat 7.3. Xircom Cardbus 10/100 ethernet PCMCIA card debain unstable kernel 2.4.18 (RH7.3 also used this kernel) If I'm not downloading a big file/files, the ping times are normal (3.3ms av). This doesn't happen at home, where we run a 100Mbs network. Uni runs a 10Mbs network. Could debian be misconfiguring my network card to be running at 100Mbs over a 10Mbs network (or something)? tim http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13 Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. ifconfig data: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A4:AB:02:52 inet addr:132.181.15.64 Bcast:132.181.255.255 Mask:255.255.248.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:25814 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:17747 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:35007315 (33.3 MiB) TX bytes:1284616 (1.2 MiB) Interrupt:9 Base address:0x4000 irlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:10.0.1.0 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:244 (244.0 b) TX bytes:244 (244.0 b) Ping data: 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=4672.8 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=3672.8 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=2672.8 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=12 ttl=255 time=1672.8 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=13 ttl=255 time=672.8 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=14 ttl=255 time=1003.5 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=15 ttl=255 time=11.3 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=16 ttl=255 time=58.4 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=17 ttl=255 time=2069.1 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=18 ttl=255 time=1071.7 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=19 ttl=255 time=1006.2 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=20 ttl=255 time=9.2 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=21 ttl=255 time=3482.7 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=22 ttl=255 time=3000.6 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=23 ttl=255 time=2000.9 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=24 ttl=255 time=1001.0 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=25 ttl=255 time=1004.5 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=26 ttl=255 time=11.5 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=27 ttl=255 time=53.7 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=28 ttl=255 time=3002.9 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=29 ttl=255 time=2016.5 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=30 ttl=255 time=2003.6 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=31 ttl=255 time=1003.8 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=32 ttl=255 time=16.3 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=33 ttl=255 time=3543.5 ms 64 bytes from 132.181.9.75: icmp_seq=34 ttl=255 time=2548.3 ms
