I use slackware 8 with an AMD K6 II as a firewall/misc server and haven't had that problem..
Is it a default slack install with the 2.2.19 kernel?
I updated mine to 2.4.14 yesterday going through the IP MASQ howto from the IP masq resource site and it got rid of several misc errors I was getting.
You may want to do this just for shits.
What eth card do you have? what driver is it using? what does ifconfig tell you? Are you on COX using DHCP?
Sounds like a card problem to me.... but need more details.
let me get this straight, after it acts up, you can still telnet into it but not ping?
At 01:16 PM 11/15/2001, you wrote:
>Hi, I'm new to the list but I've got a small problem. I have a linux
>box at home that's running slackware 8. The machine has an AMD K5 100
>processor and 64MB of RAM in it. The problem is that it seems to have a
>limit of how much data it will let me move to it or from it. Once that
>limit is reached, the machine stops responding to anything that comes in
>over the network. I can't ping it or connect to it. I also use it as a
>firewall for my windows box. When the linux box acts up, it stops
>forwarding packets to or from the windows box. I can log into the linux
>box itself and it will let me run programs. If the program is network
>related such as ping, it won't work. It won't let me ping the windows
>box or anything on the internet. This also applies to ftp, http,
>whatever.
>
>On the linux box I have running imapd, sendmail, httpd, ftpd, sshd,
>telnetd. It also has a 128MB swap partition.
>
>I have a friend with a similar setup, better processor, same memory and
>the same services running on his machine, but he doesn't have this
>problem.
>
>When my linux box acts up the only solution I've found is to reboot it.
>I've found if I reboot it once a day it doesn't act up on me.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks
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