On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:34:17AM +0000, Simon Hobson wrote: > The 'new' box I built I would have expected to cope, but I suspect > that one of the NICs may have something to do with it - it's not one > I would have chosen (sorry, can't remember which one now, I'm at home > and the box is at work and not accessible - could be an RTL8139) but > this was (at the time) a zero budget job ! I should have access to an > Intel NIC to replace it with next week. One thing that makes me > suspicious is that if I load up the system and then try to copy a > large file off it with SCP then it kernel panics - and it appears to > be related to interrupts in the NIC driver.
That'll be the broken version of the 8139c chip. Don't ever use it. Don't even load the driver. The hardware is too buggy to ever work. Not that I would ever use any Realtek chip. They're all terrible, slow, CPU-hungry junk, that one is just worse than usual in that it can take out the whole system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users