7.0 - slow/unstable Internet access via Linux router

[Sean C. Farley]

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Dmitry Antipov wrote:

> Hello,
>
> recently I've installed 7.0 and now I'm observing strange thing with
> my Internet connection.  Access to some sites may be VERY slow or
> doesn't work at all with different kinds of timeout messages or
> without messages at all (but other sites works fine). For example,
> firefox may say "Transferring data from..." message and then "The
> connection to the server was reset while the page was loading", lynx
> just says "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" and displays no data, etc.
>
> I'm also using Linux and Windows XP on the same machine, and the same
> sites are loaded very quickly. Note I'm not using a proxy.
>
> My NIC is:
>
> mskc0: <Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem 
> 0xcdefc000-0xcdefffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
> msk0: <Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon EC Id 0xb6 Rev 0x01> on mskc0
> msk0: Ethernet address: 00:11:2f:37:d5:19
> miibus0: <MII bus> on msk0
> e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1111 Gigabit PHY> PHY 0 on miibus0
> e1000phy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, 
> auto
> mskc0: [FILTER]

*snip*

> Any ideas ?

I saw this commit[1] to HEAD this morning concerning msk(4) and 88E8053.
It may not be related.

Sean
   1. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2008-February/087879.html
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