PHPTOm writes: > On my debian box, the network connection "pauses". It is serving web > pages and I have samba set up, and it seems every minute or so the > connection drops. Sometimes for 30 seconds. Then it picks back up > and I can connect to it. Is this most likely a hardware issue? > Anyone heard of this before? It sounds like a bad network card or issues caused by a cheap network card. Make sure you have the latest kernel. If so, try changing the network card. RTL8139 based cards (8139too driver) are a bad idea. While they should work, it is a lousy chipset and I've seen problems with them on certain machines. These chipsets are usually found on very cheap cards (and even some not-so-cheap cards if you are shopping at Best Buy or similar). A new Linksys LNE100TX (tulip driver) is a decent card for a home machine. I've always had good luck with eepro100 based cards in both Linux and FreeBSD on machines that push a lot of traffic. 3com cards (3c59x driver) are also solid. Your hub / switch might also be broken. -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list