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Royce Souther 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 | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | _______________________________________________ | 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH0KuLwRXgH3rKGfMRAqeOAKCRQu08FznD+yadhe+LzoyUArh5tQCfT3Jl Pd9If0hSlqCH/m4yNtIdg/I= =iWrY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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

