New data point: the problem only occurs when the haldaemon is running.
What, I wonder, does that daemon do with the network interfaces?
cheers,
Steve Gaarder
System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Steve Gaarder wrote:
> I just installed SL for the first time on an Intel Core Duo box with an MSI
> G965M-FIR motherboard. This board has a Realtek RTL-8169SC network inteface
> that uses the r1000 driver. Pings show a bizarre pattern. If I ping every
> 10 seconds, the turnaround time gradually increases with each ping until it
> hits about 2 seconds, at which point it drops back to a low value and starts
> climbing again. If I ping every second, I see the increasing behavior also,
> with every other ping taking an extra second.
>
> Any clues?
>
> Steve Gaarder
> System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
> Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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