If this box is acting only as a router, RedHat 7.3 may not be the best answer. It would be worth checking out the Linux Router Project. I think there web site is http://www.lrp.org/. You could probably at least check with these guys and see if they know what is going wrong.
They have created a Linux distro with the single purchase of routing. If I remember correctly it loads from a single floppy. So maybe you could run a test without modifying your existing installation. Cheers, Sam On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 06:36, Matthew Boeckman wrote: > I've got a RH7.3 box that I have succesfully setup to route 4 subnets > out to our upstream provider. Routing-wise, everything works fine. My > problem is that every 5 minutes (almost to the second) the box starts > dropping packets like mad, and generally just goes unresponsive. The > server itself is not locked up, but pinging either of it's interfaces, > or pinging through it fails utterly. Oddly enough, about 1 minute later > everything returns to normal. It is important to note that this is a > _heavy_ traffic network, passing approximately 20-30Mb/s through those > interfaces. There are no IPTables rules in the way (i've removed all and > still see the behavior). The box itself should not be a problem, I > think: dual P3-700 512MB ram, dual 3Com 100TX FD. I have also confirmed > that it is not a problem on our upstream. So I guess my question is: are > there kernel tweaks I need to do to better tune this? Is an ARP cache > getting updated too frequently? The regularity, and the return to > normalcy really make me think it's some setting I just need to tune, but > so far I haven't come across anything terribly helpful. > > Any thought are appreciated. > > Thanks, Matthew > -- > Matthew Boeckman (816) 777-2160 > Manager - Systems Integration Saepio Technologies > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
