Random Network Droping, advice needed

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Wed Mar 17 00:00:57 UTC 2004


Am Mi, den 17.03.2004 schrieb Jim Radford um 00:26:
> On Tuesday 16 Mar 2004 11:08 pm, Jim Radford wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 Mar 2004 10:28 pm, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > > Am Di, den 16.03.2004 schrieb Jim Radford um 21:53:
> > > > #Added by me - dunno what it does :)
> > > > net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 0
> > > >
> > > > Does that take effect automatically?
> > >
> > > No, you need to run "sysctl -p"
> >
> > Ahh, cheers for that.
> 
> Hmmm, since I ran that command I'm seeing this in messages over and over 
> again.
> 
> Mar 16 20:53:31 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth1
> Mar 16 20:53:31 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth2
> Mar 16 20:53:31 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth3
> Mar 16 20:53:31 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth4
> Mar 16 20:53:31 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth5
> Mar 16 20:53:31 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth6
> Mar 16 20:53:31 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth7
> Mar 16 20:53:57 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth1
> Mar 16 20:53:57 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth2
> Mar 16 20:53:57 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth3
> Mar 16 20:53:57 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth4
> Mar 16 20:53:57 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth5
> Mar 16 20:53:57 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth6
> Mar 16 20:53:57 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth7
> 
> What does that mean?

What is the content of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts on your system?

Additional for the initial problem: cat /proc/interrupts
Check if your network card shares an IRQ with other devices. If so, try
to change the PCI slot to give the NIC an own IRQ.

Alexander


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