freezing Ethernet crossover link.

[peasthope@shaw.ca]

This is a phenomenon in Squeeze for the recent 
few weeks.

A Linux router and workstation are connected 
with a crossover cable.  This is on the router.  
Communication appears normal until after 
some minutes or hours it freezes so that  
"/etc/init.d/networking restart" fails.

dalton:/home/peter# ifconfig eth1
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:7e:00:e5:da
          inet addr:172.24.1.1  Bcast:172.24.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21d:7eff:fe00:e5da/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

dalton:/home/peter# uname -a
Linux dalton 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Sat Sep 26 01:16:22 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Any ideas about the 0s from ifconfig?

Thanks,           ... Peter E.


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