Hi, I've been running Gentoo Linux with kernel 2.4.26-r9 and Debian Woody on a hospital imaging network.
The introduction of both these machines appears to be associated with connectivity loss of other computers on the same subnet. There are a number of possible causes including: * A malfunctioning cisco switch * A misconfigured cisco switch * Turning the Gentoo laptop into a packet sniffer using ethernet bridging and the resulting carnage from turning STP on (This was once off and the cisco routers have since been reset, won't do that again) * Some kind of kernel misconfiguration (Note: IP forwarding is turned off) I think that it is probably going to be very difficult to find the cause of the problem without disturbing the clinical operation of the network. So far, I have looked at migrating to FreeBSD, however, I'd prefer linux because most of the scientific software we use is/will be packaged for linux. I wanted to know how to set up a very conservative eth0 interface. I was thinking of possibly just having host entries on the routing table and no net entries or default gateway. Would this achieve anything? Is there anything I can do to the kernel to prevent network instabilities? Thanks Robbie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
