Internet lockup

[Anthony Messina]

Gordon Gallup wrote:
> Sorry, but I should also have said that the ethernet stuff all works
> OK when WinXP is run on the box and also when FC4 is run.  So, my
> conclusion is that the trouble is internal to the box.
> 
> On 4/30/06, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/30/06, Gordon Gallup <gallup.gordon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Greetings All,
>> >    Sorry if this appears twice, but an earlier message got lost in
>> cyberspace.
>> >    I have a new e-machine T6420.  It is connected to a hub with three
>> > other machines and the hub is connected to a Siemans DSL
>> > "modem-router".  I installed FC5 on the T6420.  FC5 is configured to
>> > use DHCP at boot time. The behavior is somewhat flakey, but it appears
>> > that ssh and sftp (particularly the
>> > latter) break networking if I attempt to send too much information.
>> > It appears to require a reboot to re-estaablish contact. Fiddling with
>> > the inetd.network script does nothing I can detect, although it thinks
>> > the network is up.  Before the death, pinging works fine all around
>> > the machines connected to the hub and also to my office machine across
>> > town.  In addition, Firefox works for a while, but I can't say yet
>> > just how long.
>> >    Attempting to connect with the kio-slave 'fish' never works.
>> > Thanks for any help, GAG

just a question...  what ethernet card do you have?  what driver does it
use?  it isn't the tg3 driver is it?

i'm only asking because i've been having what sounds like a similar
intermittent problem with my fc5 using the tg3 driver for a

lspci:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)

please ignore this if it's unrelated.

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