On Jan 7, 2009, at 8:03 AM, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > One of our servers had opensuse 11.1 installed as an upgrade from > opensuse 10.3 > on Monday of this week, and has lost its network connection twice in > as many days. The network cards on > the server, of which one is currently in use and the other is up > with the same ip address but not currently > connected to the network, are the NetXtreme BCM5722 gigabit ethernet > PCI express model. The cards are > configured to run at 100Mbps Full Duplex with Autonegotiation turned > off.
Losing your net connection is unlikely to have anything to do with ClamAV. Barring unusual circumstances (setting up a bridge or some kind of link aggregation or trunking like Cisco's FEC or CARP), you should not configure two NICs with the the same IP. Barring unusual circumstances, such as connecting to a defective switch, you should never need to disable ethernet autonegotiation. This said, there are some other reasons which might cause the link to fail; some platforms have an integrated remote management platform layered on top of a normal NIC, which can interfere with ARP and normal operation of the interface-- usually a BIOS firmware update or adjusting the BIOS to disable the management stuff helps. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
