[ltp] Network Card Dropping packets

[Geoff Everist]

Adam Southerland wrote:

> I Just rebuilt my Thinkpad with Slackware 9.1... Keyword is rebuilt...
>
> I finally got the old pcmcia-cs-x.x.x package rebuilt along with my 
> RealTek 8139 drivers...
>
> Now, my network seems to work and I can ping and stuff BUT the instant 
> I use a webbrowser (lynx, netscape, etc...) my packets start getting 
> 'dropped' and I also get a few errors...
>
> I also had this happen to my IBM 10/100 EtherJet NIC (But I didn't 
> have to re-create drivers for it)
>
> The interesting thing is FTP, PING (ICMP) seem to work fine... Anyone 
> know why this is happening?
>
> Thanks,
> Micah (Adam Southerland)
>
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If you use any tunnelling, ppp (via a gateway say) or VPN's, then it is 
possible that your MTU setting is too high. Are you noticing that it is 
the larger packets that are being dropped?

Other than that, no idea.

Cheers
Geoff