Re: NIC issue or other?

[Aioanei Rares <debian.dev.list@gmail.com>]

Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> briand@aracnet.com put forth on 3/31/2010 10:06 PM:
>   
> > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:45:37 -0500
> > Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > Got this error message stream on a server today.  Never seen this
> > > before. Does this mean my NIC is going south?  Or is something else
> > > going on?  I tried manualy bringing the NIC back up but ifdown/up
> > > didn't fix the problem. Had to reboot the server to fix it.  eth0
> > > seems to be working fine now.
> > >       
> > can't comment on the problem, however, if the driver is a module you
> > might want to try unloading and reloading the module.  that might reset
> > the card and wouldn't need to reboot.
> >     
>
> The driver is built into the kernel.  Thanks for the suggestion though.
>
>   
My 2 cents : it's a software problem aka kernel bug which should be 
reported.