Debian: Etch
Kernel: 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-486
Motherboard: Asustek A7V8X-X (VIA Chipset)
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2600+
Nic 1: Winbond W89C940 (assigned to /dev/ethnet via Udev)
Nic 1: VIA VT6102 [Rhine-II] (assigned to /dev/ethloc via Udev)
Problem: Anywhere from 3-60mins post boot ethloc appears to almost completely
fail. Pinging the interface results in alternating blocks of 'Host unreachable'
followed by replies from the interface, but with the round trip time anywhere
from 3-60 seconds, before reverting to 'Host unreachable'. The same effects are
seen when pinging from the box, out through ethloc.
This situation can be temporarily recovered by downing the interface and then
bringing it back up (i.e. `ifdown ethloc; ifconfig ethloc down; ifup ethloc`).
/dev/ethnet continues to function throughout.
System was previously running fine with Sarge (2.4 kernel) installed.
Have so far:
Tried alternate NIC cable, NIC (3Com) & switch port.
Nothing of note in syslog, daemon.log, dmesg.
Moved NIC device naming outside of ethn namespace in case some conflict between
kernel initial assignment and UDEV reassignment.
Alternate kernel - intention had been to run Xen on this box and so have also
used the 2.6.18-6 xen kernel included with Etch.
Stopped & disabled shorewall.
Having had a read around, I have a sneaking suspicion that this is a problem
with the VIA chipset on the mobo and 2.6 kernels but I am really
hoping not. (Only have one
other mobo to try and that is also VIA)
`ifconfig ethloc`
ethloc Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:A6:33:E9:1B
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:a6ff:fe33:e91b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10320974 errors:0 dropped:18 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4835850 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1866598029 (1.7 GiB) TX bytes:333097105 (317.6 MiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xa400
`ifconfig ethnet`
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:14:FF:09
inet addr:82.8.65.122 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1
RX packets:11425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7532 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:934 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6740243 (6.4 MiB) TX bytes:646968 (631.8 KiB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xd800
`route -n`
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 ethloc
82.8.64.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0 ethnet
0.0.0.0 82.8.64.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ethnet
`cat /proc/interrupts`
CPU0
0: 212 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 602 IO-APIC-edge i8042
6: 3 IO-APIC-edge floppy
7: 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0
8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 103 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 60888 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 61717 IO-APIC-edge ide1
16: 14829 IO-APIC-fasteoi ethnet
17: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2,
uhci_hcd:usb3, ehci_hcd:usb4
18: 14979872 IO-APIC-fasteoi ethloc
19: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi Ensoniq AudioPCI
NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 282120 Local timer interrupts
TRM: 0 Thermal event interrupts
SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
`lspci`
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP]
Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Winbond Electronics Corp W89C940
00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro
215GP (rev 5c)
00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 08)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
Can anybody give me any suggestions of what I can try to fix this?
Many thanks,
Stewart.
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