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/


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