NIC problem 8139too & 3c2000

[jason pearl]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 02:21, yavorsky gaetan wrote:
> Not only a FC1 problem, same with RH9.
> SAMBA 2.2.6 / 2.2.7 / 3.0 servers running RH9 / FC1 / MDK91.
> Window$ clients running 2000Pro, XP Home, XP PRO.
> Clients with realtek chips ( Linux driver 8139too ) have problems 
> working with SMB/Linux
> with giga NICs 3c940 ( Linux driver 3c2000 ).
> Looking in Samba logs, I can see many oplocks problems, and many 
> failures reported by the client .
> ( timeout, loose smb network, many smbd process started for tthe same 
> client, general window$ failure, ... )
> Same clients work fine with SMB/linux serveur with 100 Mbps NIC ( 
> realtek or 3c905 )
> 
> 1) 3c2000 problem ?
> But if I change the NIC on the client ( from realtek to 3Com for example 
> ) all is OK whatever the server NIC is.
> 
> 2) 8139too problem ?
> But if I change the NIC on the server ( from 3Com 1000 Gpbs to any 
> 100Mbps ) all is OK whatever the client NIC is.
> If I don't change any of the NICS, but cold start the (dual boot Linux 
> FC1/Win2000) server with Win2000, all is OK.
> 
> 3) Network problem ?
> IP network seems to work correctly ( but samba of course ), ifconfig on 
> the server side shows no error, no collision, ...
> IP www, ftp, telnet, ssh, are OK.
> All I can see while looking a "strace -p smbd_process", is that the 
> server is sending a packet to the client, and is blocked !
> 
> 4) Samba problem ?
> I tried many Samba different releases, and all seems to be OK ( tried to 
> disable oplocks ->same result )
> 
> I don't know what to check anymore.
> Any advise ?
> Thanks.
> Gaetan.
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dont know if i read this right but i am using a realtek 8139  and i have
no problems with samba
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