82573 xfers pause, no watchdog timeouts, DCGDIS ineffective (7.2-R)

[Jack Vogel]

LOL, glad the problem has been resolved, and no thanks, I do not need
to pursue this any further.

I also want to thank Jeremy for his help and data!!

Thanks guys and good evening,

Jack


On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Royce Williams <royce.williams at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Royce Williams
> <royce.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Jeremy Chadwick
> >> - All machines connected to an HP ProCurve 2626 switch (100mbit,
> >>  full-duplex ports, all autoneg).
>
> > No firewall is active on the problem system, and none of this back
> > have been DCGDIS-ified, but otherwise, our setup is identical.
>
> Er, s/back/batch/g, and it's not a ProCurve. ;-)  But we are also
> usually full-duplex and autoneg on both sides.
>
> Based on new (embarrassing) information, I'll leave it to Jack to
> decide whether or not he wants to pursue this further.
>
> The problem box is sitting in my grotty mini-lab, with a subnet
> partially serviced by a 10M hub.  Guess which Ethernet cable I picked
> up.  Guess what happens when I move the system to a 100M/full
> connection.
>
> As my cow-orker put it, "You and the other four people on Earth using
> that NIC on 10M hubs" can probably find workarounds.  My apologies for
> the noise, though it's theoretically possible that the root cause
> might still need addressing.
>
> Jack, let me know if you want me to do any testing for you.  Or I can
> always send you my hub. ;-)
>
> Royce
>