Robert Brown writes: > Jason Dixon writes: > > Sorry for butting in late in the thread, but didn't you already mention > > that these "hubs" worked fine with the same hosts running an older > > kernel? Why would the change of kernel affect the behavior of dumb > > network devices? Did I miss something? > > Yes, I said that, but maybe it was the previous hubs that worked > fine. It was a bad tiome to be working on the network. It was > Christmas Eve, I was coming down with the flu, Red Hat had just > announced a kernel update that looked like it would help me with a > firewall problem, I had just switched numerous NICs to upgrade from 10 > to 100 MBPS, and of course I upgraded the hubs also. I was sure that > it worked before the kernel upgrade, but now I am not so sure anymore. BTW in answer to the question, "Why would the change of kernel affect the behavior of dumb network devices?" I had considered the possibility that the device initialization for the NICs, as specified in /etc/modules.conf, was not being done the same in the new kernel. It had also been suggested that the new kernel might have discovered the devices in a different order than the old kernel did. -- -------- "And there came a writing to him from Elijah" [2Ch 21:12] -------- R. J. Brown III rj@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.elilabs.com/~rj voice 859 567-7311 Elijah Laboratories Inc. P. O. Box 166, Warsaw KY 41095 fax 859 567-7311 ----- M o d e l i n g t h e M e t h o d s o f t h e M i n d ------ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
