Re: eth0 dies? (was: Strange lockup)


Ron Farrer (uct@fidalgo.net)
Fri, 9 Apr 1999 13:24:08 -0700 (PDT)


Also, printing (esp. large postscript files) and eth0 usage causes a
lockup about 90% of the time.

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Ron Farrer wrote:

>
> Hello!
>
> Recap: Noname (AXPpci33) locks up, only power cylce can bring it back.
>
> The first thing that would go was eth0 (a Linksys PCI 10/100 LAN card with
> their tulip clone). eth0 death has been happening more and more often,
> usually I can just log in locally and issue 'ifconfig eth0 down' 'ifconfig
> eth0 up' and it starts working again. Now today it died but taking it down
> and back up again didn't help. As before there are no errors in
> /var/log/messages. My only choice was a 'shutdown -r now', and when it
> came back up all was fine again (for now). The last shutdown/reboot was
> yesterday, before that about a week, so it doesn't seem to be consistant.
> I've run a couple of tests on the network card and it works fine under a
> heavy load...
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Ron Farrer
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