Network slows down after network restart

[jdow]

From: "Nirnimesh" <nirnimesh at students.iiit.ac.in>
> 
> My Ethernet speed drops down considerably after a "service network 
> restart" on my FC4-x86_64. When the system boots the Ethernet is all 
> fine (scp reports ~10 Mbytes/sec) but after a "service network restart" 
> it drops to ~150 Kbytes/sec. The system is using the forcedeth reverse 
> engineered driver for eth0. Even subsequent restarting of the network 
> doesn't resolve this (but system reboot does). Any clues?
> 
> 
> System config:
> FC4-x86_64
> Asus K8N-E Deluxe motherboard with Nvidia NFORCE 250Gb chipset
> Athlon 64 3200+

I made a network reconfiguration and did the "service network restart"
gig. I, too, noticed problems. The broadcast mask was mangled. So I
did an "ifdown eth0" followed by an "ifup eth0". This restored full
connectivity. You might check if this happens for you, too. Then file
a bugzilla with your findings.

{^_^}