Topic: High package drops - useless server

[Lars Bonnesen]

I went to give e-smith a tryout and downloaded the e-smith5.6 iso.

The installation went smooth without any serious problems.

But accessing the box from the network is allmost impossible. Pinging the box results in about 25% drops.

The hardware is a dual PII266 Adaptec SCSI system, tulip netchip.

Is this hardware not powerfull enough or is it unsupported in any way?

Regards, Lars.

[Lars Bonnesen]

Saying packet drop, I mean packet loss, naturally.

Regards, Lars.

[Jochen Hoegerl]

I have similar Configuration
(HP Kayak XU, 2xPII266, 512MB ECC RAM, SCSI,
NIC Netgear FA310, Compaq NetFlex), which runs without a hassle.
 Maybe you have a bad cable or not the correct nic-driver.

Jochen

[Lars Bonnesen]

Jochen Hoegerl wrote:
>
> I have similar Configuration
> (HP Kayak XU, 2xPII266, 512MB ECC RAM, SCSI,
> NIC Netgear FA310, Compaq NetFlex), which runs without a
> hassle.
>  Maybe you have a bad cable or not the correct nic-driver.

Could be. Will check the cable.

The driver is a tulip, which ought to work with the digital DE500 (it does on other distos).

But I think it is the box that is doing someting wrong. The disk is working constantly, well only with a few pauses.

Regards, Lars.

[Shad Lords]

For what it's worth.  I've had a lot of trouble with tulip based cards and all versions of SME.  I usually stick with the Intel (e100,e1000) based cards as I have had the best luck with them.

-Shad

[Kelvin]

Here's my 2 cents worth :-

I've used :-

Tulip, Realtek, Intel, 3COM and SMC (NS Chip) based cards without any problems before, in spite of problems faced by others (especially with all the bad rep. Realtek cards get). As and when I do get a problem (rarely) it is usually due to a bad card and not because all cards of that type are bad.

Kelvin

[RayG]

I had similar problems with a tulip card. More like 75% packet loss in my case though.  I replaced it with a $5 realtek card and everything has been fine since. Now my only source of packet loss has four feet and sharp teeth. The joys of spring !

My cpu is a VIA C3 at 800 Mhz.

[Jeroen]

RayG wrote:
>
> I had similar problems with a tulip card. More like 75%
> packet loss in my case though.  I replaced it with a $5
> realtek card and everything has been fine since. Now my only
> source of packet loss has four feet and sharp teeth. The joys
> of spring !

Same here for what its worth.

jeroen