On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Royce Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a remote site that has three NIC's, two for local networks and one > going to the firewall and out to the Internet. The firewall is dieing and > needs to be replaced. The CAT5 cable goes directly from the server to the > firewall. When the firewall dies the one NIC in the server sees it go down > and the rest of the networks also stop, no one can login to the serer and > you cannot even ping it. > > The fault is with the firewall and it needs to be replaced but I am very far > away and no one will be on site with the skill to fix it for some time. > > I have been looking for some way I can stop the downed link from blocking > the others but I have not had any luck with ethtool. > > Here is some data from dmesg. > e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link down > e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex > e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link down > e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex > e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link down > e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex > SMB connection re-established (-5) > e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link down > e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex > e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link down > e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex > > > -- > http://www.Radados.org
Greetings Royce, What kind of firewall is it? Can it be configured for pass-through operations? -- Virtually, Tom W _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
