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Old 10-24-2016, 02:12 PM   #1
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Centos 7 Ethernet Driver Issues (e1000e)


I just recently installed Centos 7 on my desktop with an Asrock z97 extreme4 motherboard. The LAN port is an Intel I218V. I am using intel's provided driver e1000e for device communication. The issue I am having is when I first start my network the speeds are perfect, but after a minute or two the speed reduces drastically and usually just stops. If I simply issue 'service network restart' then the network comes back up fast then goes back to a crawl. I've used nethogs and the speed gets down to 0.02kb/s or lower. I've tried different versions of the driver, I have set up a static ip and used google's dns and specified the gateway. I am not sure what else to try.
 
Old 10-24-2016, 03:37 PM   #2
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Did you ADD a driver or was it the one you got with the installation? Typically it will configure your network devices based on what it discovers during installation so adding a driver isn't necessary.

If you run 'ethtool <interface>' what does it show you? A lot of NICs default to "auto-negotiate" which could be an issue if the other side is negotiating down. You can actually hard set the speed and duplex with ethtool from command line (and make it do it persistently across reboots by adding settings to the ifcfg-<interface> file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.

I have seen issues with interfaces negotiating down to something like 10MB/half duplex causing issues like the one you describe on servers when the cable between it and the switch was flaky. Usually replacing the cable solved the issue.

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Old 10-24-2016, 03:59 PM   #3
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At first it was using the packaged driver provided by Centos 7 but I added the same driver later on thinking maybe the package was corrupt. I've ran the ethtool -i command to verify the driver and the version but didn't realize I could set the negotiation using that command. I want to bet that is the issue as I am running a gigabyte connection on a max connection speed of 22 mb/s. I will let you know what the output is.
 
  


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