[Triumf-linux-managers] Anyone has experience with this sort of a problem?

[Andrew Daviel]

I've seen the message, but I don't think it is the cause of your problem.

As I recall, Ethernet cards do some filtering in hardware, but pass
packets that match your MAC address, broadcast address or
subscribed multicast groups up to the kernel, which has to deal with them
as an interrupt. There were some really old cards with no filtering at
all, and the kernel had to handle everything. I doubt you have one of
those; it was a long time ago.

Is this an old slow machine ?

I've only seen the problem you descibe running over a slow network, like
the Internet to BNL 10 years ago, or the cellphone network. Not at the
console.

Does it do it on the actual console (not X11) ?
Does it do it in a session to another computer ?
Does it do it if logged on from another computer ?


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