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Re: regularly dying network connection



hawk wrote:
> 
> My network goes down quite regularly, especially under load.  I've
> written a script to force-reload after waiting five seconds, whcih leaves it functional most of the time (although some requests hit when the network is down and casue errors--meaning that sometimes it doesn't even stay up five seconds).  It's also necessary, about once a day, to power off the machine to reset something on hte network card, as even force-reload won't recover.
> 
> The card is a eepro, and when the connection dies, the tcpdump report is:
> 
> fac13:/home/hawk# tcpdump
> tcpdump: listening on eth0
> 15:00:33.547471 146.186.61.60.1033 > 231.182.220.243.36546: udp 4 [ttl 1]
> tcpdump: pcap_loop: read: Network is down

i had a similar problem a couple years ago using eepro100 cards in old
machines(p100-p133) my solution was to rip out hte cards and install $12
NE2k 10baseT cards(ISA) instead..worked great.

have a feeling in that case the pci bus/protocol/something wasn't very
compadible.(older standards..?)

nate

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