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Which distro?  My laptop does not exhibit this behaviour.

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
|
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