Slackware box makes my router reboot

[psych-major]

At least that's how it looks. My D-link DI-624 wireless router has been rebooting every 5-15 minutes, and it wipes out the log when it happens. Once it comes back on, everything reconnects and all seems well.

Following some advice I saw on a D-Link forum, I took 1 PC at a time offline until the problem disappeared.

The culprit turned out to be my Compaq Presario with Slack 10.1 and kernel 2.4.26 set to DHCP.

My question is this: Should I be looking at a config issue in the networking setup, or could a bad nic cause this type of behavior?

On a related note, the PC that was not at fault was my wife's Dell Latitude running Slack 10.1, kernel 2.4.29 and a D-Link DWL-G630 at 54mbs. Yeah baby!! Let's here it for Linuxant Driverloader!!!
Best 20 bucks I ever spent!!

[soulestream]

a bad nic if it was chattering could cause this.(or bad driver)

have you tried the pc on a different port. a bad port might cause it.

I cant think of a configuration setting that would cause that. if i think of anything ill repost


you said your wife had a laptop too. if they are both pcmcia you could try swapping them.

soule

[psych-major]

Originally posted by soulestream
a bad nic if it was chattering could cause this.(or bad driver)

It's the dusty old nic that came in it, and I have a stack of new ones so I'll try swapping it out.

have you tried the pc on a different port. a bad port might cause it.

yes, same symptoms. Tried different cable also.

I cant think of a configuration setting that would cause that. if i think of anything ill repost

I couldn't either, except ip conflict, which would show up in an error message somewhere. Thinking back, this has worked fine for about a month, at my office and here at home. Just noticed an issue the other day where swaret couldn't hit any download sites, and this infernal rebooting started about that time too. It's got to be a bad nic.


you said your wife had a laptop too. if they are both pcmcia you could try swapping them.

The problem child is a desktop with PCI nic.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll try the nic later and post back

[soulestream]

i remember reading somewhere about a similar problem. i think one of the pc was running a dhcp server and they would have problems when the lease was up the pcs and router were getting screwy about which dhcp server to use.


soule

[psych-major]

That happened at the place I used to work, the network engineer was testing Linux and when he set up his workstation, he inadvertantly set up samba to be a dhcp and domain server. Oops, the whole subnet went offline, had to reboot everything but the mainframe (on which you could stop and restart the networking, gee, sort of like Linux...)

Come to think of it, I don't know that this workstation isn't trying to be a dhcp server, I'll check it out once I get new KVM switch.