FC2 - Strange Ethernet Behavior

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, James Wilkinson wrote:

> John Krische has been having trouble with Ethernet speeds. I suggested
> that he try kernel.org kernels, but he wrote:
> 
> > Yes, these are FC2 kernels, v 2.6.7 something, 494 I think.  Thanks for 
> > the idea, but for reasons of our own I need to keep these servers on 
> > "stock" packages, updates & such from official fedora sources.  company 
> > policy and all.  If it were a machine at home, I'd compile kernel source 
> > in a heartbeat.
> 
> And there's no chance that you can use kernel.org kernels just for long
> enough to check that it's a Fedora patch causing the problem? It would
> at least give us something else to look at.

Why not just try the FC2 testing kernel 521 (which is 2.6.8ish).. Most
of the FC2 kernel issus have been upstream issues anyway..

Satish