I was working on a customer's box today, and was seeing the same behavior. FWIW, the box was an HP Vectra running RH-7.1. I ended up determining that the problem was caused by some BIOS driven power management which was apparently spinning down the drives, and cutting power to just about everything other than the CPU. I went into the BIOS, and disabled everything under the POWER section, and the problem hadn't reappeared after 4 hours of inactivity (it was occuring every 15 minutes before). Oh, BTW, the NIC in this box was a 3Com 3c509.
--- John Hiemenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a problem with my NIC losing 'connetivity' on my boxen. > > The nic uses the 'tlan' module, and eth0 comes up fine at boot. > > After a period of time that I haven't been able to determine, the > networks > goes kaplop and I can't connect to or from this boxen anylonger. > > I tried taking eth0 down and then eth0 back up again, but that didn't > help. > So I take eth0 down, rmmod tlan, and then eth0 back up again and that > would > restore things... temporarily. It'd go kaplop again eventually. > > So I built tlan into my kernel. This seemed to work, but now after > about a > day it acts the same way again. I can boot my system and the network > connection goes bellyup anywhere between 30 minutes to a few hours > later. > > And it doesn't matter if there is network activity or not. This has > happened > at times of ftp and web access, and then everything just stops. It > has > happened when nothing is happening and the next connection times out. > > I get messages in /var/log and on the console about 'eth0: link > forced'. It > seems that as soon as one of these messages appears, my network goes > bellyup. > It still does this even though the module is compiled into the > kernel, which > I thought was odd. (!?) > > I asked this before but got no replies, anyone have any ideas? Anyone > see > anything like this happening? > > I just found an old 3com 3c59x card, I will try that I guess. I'm > just sick > and silly from trying to figure this out on the lack of any time I can > spend > doing it. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
