Hello, After upgrading to 2.2 (yes, this is not a mistake;) i experienced very strange delays of small packets (<100 bytes). There is no regular pattern - sometimes about 100 packets go without any delay. I tried out 2.4.20 - same effect as with 2.2.23. The cables are not the reason - 2.0.39 works fine on the same network. These delays can be observed just by pinging another host, but they occur also in TCP - running a telnet session is a pain. They are much less frequent, if the session (or pinging) goes through a router and disappear completely for larger packets. The delay is sometimes almost equal to 1 second, and if it is longer, it is always almost equal to 2 seconds. It seems not to be bound to a particular network card or cable type - I observed the delays on 10 Mbit coaxial cable with ne2k-pci cards and (but more rarely) on 100 Mbit/s switched ethernet. There are no packet losses. I realize that this is not a concrete information. What could I do to make a better report? There are no kernel messages related to the network activity, just these delays. Regards Krzysztof Strasburger - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
