I built an HLFS system for use as our Faculty firewall. The machine (Tyan motherboard) has 3 network cards, and 1 GB of RAM. We have two networks (NOC and students). When I connect the NOC network (less than 50 users - eth1), everything is fine. When I connect the student's network (> 500 users -eth2) the machine freezes until I remove the network cable from the Student's network.
When I ran my LFS distro on the same machine, both networks are OK and can access the Internet. I have looked at the interrupts and ensured each network interface has a separate IRQ but I still face the same problem. (I also enabled TCP congestion control in the kernel.) Any ideas will be appreciated! Daniel -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
