I have a client's workstation on the bench at the moment which has a complaint of being _very_ slow on their local ethernet.
I just booted it up on my local network and it gave no symptoms, but I have since rebooted it and am getting the described symptoms. An ssh into the box takes over 5 _minutes_ and a ping from the workstation to the workbench server looks like: 64 bytes from 192.168.253.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=996.294 msec Warning: time of day goes back, taking countermeasures. 64 bytes from 192.168.253.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=503 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.000 sec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=316 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=1.000 sec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=434 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=1.000 sec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=268 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=1.000 sec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=347 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=1.000 sec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=273 usec and a ping from the workbench server to the workstation looks like: 64 bytes from 192.168.253.133: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=997.064 msec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.133: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=999.942 msec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.133: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=999.955 msec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.133: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=999.950 msec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.133: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=999.956 msec 64 bytes from 192.168.253.133: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=999.960 msec The response is similar to one I have seen before where there was an IRQ conflict but I don't think that is the case here. It's a VIA VT82C694T chipset on the mobo with a Davicom NIC chip. I have had problems with VIA chipsets and Realtek NIC chips before, but that does not apply here, I don't think. Has anyone seen this type of behaviour before, or better still, know a cause and a fix? -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "Life is like a hot bath - it's great when you're in it, but the longer you stay the more wrinkled you become." - Garfield -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
