The problem is due to your Intel Etherexpress. That card is _evil_. They are
to slow for fast LANs and get out of sync. I tried to use one (given as a
loan) for some months last year, There were zillions of similar bug reports
on comp.os.linux.networking.
While I agree that this answer is
The network card is an Intel Etherexpress 16.
This is the problem right here.
The Intel driver, when confronted with a large file being transferred
over a local subnet on a fast (P5) system, will spool a zillion
messages to your syslog (as the errors mount) and then fall over.
I have verified
Solution: Get a new Ethernet card, or a slower machine. Something
like the BOCA BocaLan PCI with the AMD Lance is nice.
Beware: the BocaLan PCI cards have a design flaw which can cause big
problems as well. The Allied Telesyn PCI card uses the same chip but is
unaffected. I'd also _highly_
unaffected. I'd also _highly_ recommend the DEC PCI cards, and also
the Kingston PCI cards. The Kingston cards use the DEC ethernet chip,
work with the DE4X5 driver, and cost $60-$70. Not bad for 1MB/sec
transfers.
I've a dirt-cheep (ie, I got it for free) NE2000 clone with a UMC chip on
* Exactly what you typed or did to demonstrate the problem.
On another
machine, I typed
ftp erich1
erich (my user name)
sdlfskldfj (my
password)
binary
cd /usr/local/bin
get emacs
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