[ltp] Network Card Dropping packets

[Adam Southerland]

It connects through the network... I ended up Re-Installing Slackware, and 
recomiling everything and Now it works perfect... Either the install was 
messed up or the compiles I did on the install were messed up... I don't 
know... =(

Micah


>From: Geoff Everist <geoff@everist.net>
>Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>Subject: Re: [ltp] Network Card Dropping packets
>Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 08:41:19 +1000
>
>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
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