[clug-talk] networking and router question

[Niels Voll]

sorry - I don't have experience specifically with Dlink routers, but 
having used numerous different Linksys router configurations over the 
years, I've had similar experiences of traffic freezing under certain 
circumstances. Most often, the only solution was a firmware upgrade to 
the router.

But there was one circumstance, where for the longest time I thought I 
had to reboot the router. Finally I figured out, that in my specific 
situation, I could just disconnect the uplink cable between the 2 
misbehaving devices for a few seconds and then reconnect it, and then 
things became ok again. It didn't solve the problem, but it gave me an 
idea, that I was dealing with some sort of overloading problem.

I've mostly run switches for the last few years, rather than hubs - I 
wonder, if the NFS traffic is just plainly overloading the router's 
processing power, since all of the packets coming into your hubs are 
showing up at the router, too.

I wouldn't be surprised, if some of the processors in the gear for home 
networks are underpowered for a real traffic onslaught. Of course, 
switches have the effect of thinning out traffic at each port, so they 
tend to suffer less than hubs.

...Niels



bogi wrote:

>HI.
>Here is a tricky question:
>
>	My home network is built up from a DI-604 Dlink router / hub with 4 ports. I 
>also have a Dlink DFE-816 Class II 100 BaseTX hub, connecting the computers 
>on my network. And i have some nfs shares that i mount and use. When i do 
>heavy traffic on the nfs, my router looses the internet connection. The DFE 
>works ok, there are some collisions, but the speed is ok. The hub is 
>connected via the uplink socket to one of the ports of the router.
>The question is:: Why does the Dl-604 drop the internet connection, and would 
>only resume after i reboot (soft) it?
>
>Cheers
>Szemir
>
>
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