> The reason I suspect it's a link layer issue, rather than an application > or protocol issue, is the fact it is consistent across applications > regardless of protocol. Incidentally, DNS is oeprating fine. > > Upon further investigation, /var/adm/messages is showing a number of error > messages regarding PCI Underflow for the network card. netstat -i for the > pcn driver is also showing a large number of errors for outbound packets > as well. To reiterate, Linux is operating fine on the same physical > network and the the same adaptor. > > I have tried a different ethernet switch with the same result. > > I have installed an additional network card, using an Intel chipset and > the iprb driver, and all is working fine. > > My guess is that this issue is due to an incompatability between the pcn > driver and the AMD 79c970 chipset. > > Thanks to all for their help; the degree of support has really encouraged > me to persist with OpenSolaris.
Go looking for my post "pcn driver considered harmful" and also go looking for the ae driver. It works great. Please burn a copy of SchilliX and just live boot it and you will see the ae driver in action. It works. -- Dennis
