Re: Must _reboot_ to restart network

[Itay <debian@itayf.fastmail.fm>]

On Tue, 28 May 2013, nnex wrote:

> hi.
> Can you try to determine a network driver vie lspci forexample? or dmesg?

I guess we are interested in the ethernet controller line?

$ lscpi
...
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1)
...

> After this can try to `modprobe -r DRIVERNAME && modprobe DRIVERNAME`. This 
> is must enough for you.

I will try that as soon as the network failure appears.

> You can see a /var/log/messages for thelast messages before network is down 
> for diagnostic.

Thanks for the help.
Itay


> On 05/28/2013 04:21 PM, Itay wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I started to have these problems since one of the recent upgrades.
> >
> > Symptoms:
> > - Computer works fine for a day or so.
> > - Then network spontaneously disconnects.
> > - ifdown eth0 [1] and ifup eth0 [2] (as root) fail to restart the network.
> > - Reboot solves the problem.
> > - All other computers on our LAN work just fine during the network downtime 
> > on that computer
> >
> > If it helps, see also [3] output of 'ifconfig -a',
> > taken while network is working fine.
> >
> > I would appreciate any help to figure this out.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Itay

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