OT: FC5 2107 build - bad networking?

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 03/05/06, Troy Engel <tengel at fluid.com> wrote:
> Before I go bothering the bugbase or other lists, does anyone else lose
> networking connectivity with the new kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5 just
> pushed out for FC5?
>
> My interface comes up and basic ping works, but no applications at all
> "finish" (GAIM logins, Firefox gets, etc.) It's reminiscent of way back
> when in older kernels that tried to set that packet option that was
> getting killed on a lot of routers (I forget the name, it was eventually
> turned back off).
>
> Thanks for any 411 - the previous 2096 kernel works perfectly of course.

Looking over at fedora-list there seem to be others seeing similar
pethernet problems with the kernel - perhaps join the discussions
there.

Jonathan