Network problems on new FC4 box - please help.

[Jatin K]

On 02/27/2006 06:48 PM, William W. Austin wrote:
>
> I had to replace a disk (the one with all of the home directories on 
> it) on an FC3 box, and so I bought a new drive (particulars unimportant).
>
> To make a long story short, I decided to put FC4 on this box, and so I 
> installed the new drive and put the root filesystem on it.  I still 
> have the old FC3 root drive and can boot to either for comparison...
>
> Under FC3, I have no network problems that I can detect; however, 
> under FC4 there are two distinct (related? no idea) problems which 
> have eluded me.  I have tried looking up both of these in the 
> archives, but have had no luck (some similar issues, but nothing 
> exactly like either of these unless I missed them).
>
> Problem 1: network card goes to sleep.
>
> This machine has 2 network cards, both on-board.  The 1GB card L(Intel 
> 82540EM) goes to the smartswitch to tolk to the local network, and 
> does not show any problems.
> The other card (nVidia nForce2) is a 100MB card and talks to the DSL 
> modem.  Periodically I cannot connect to the internet at all - or even 
> ping the DSL modem.  This happens irregularly but about 5-10 
> times/day. If I reboot back to FC3, the problem does not occur.  
> Network configurations between the two (FC3/FC4) are as identical as I 
> can make them.  The first few times the problem occurs, sometimes 
> retarting networking works, but eventually a full sys reboot is the 
> only thing which works.
>
> Problem 2: slow local network.
>
> Under FC3 throughput on the LOCAL network (1GB lan) is very fast.  
> Under FC4, the best I have seen is ONE transfer of about 1.2 MB/s - 
> and throughput drops to as low as 50-75KB/s at times.  Again, this 
> does not occur under FC3 but does under FC4.  Again the same setup as 
> nearly as I can make it.  No workaround found so far.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
Question is asked in Feb 2006 ...!!!!!!!!!! :-)

Dear Mr. William

please check the date of you computer

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