[SLUG] network failure

[Grant Parnell <gripz@nospam.linuxfreak.com>]

> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:05:53 +1000 (EST)
> 
> I'm having a strange intermittent ethernet failure. I've changed the NIC, 
> the cables and the hub port, but it persists.
> 
> Symptoms: RH6 box is permenently connected to the 'net by modem and works
> fine. This box is connected to the rest of a mixed LAN via ethernet (4
> Macs, 1 NT, 1 Win98, 1 other Linux). When the problem occurs, the
> RH6 box disconnects from the rest of the LAN, although all the
> other machines can see each other. The modem connection is not effected.
> 
> To fix the problem, I do: /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
> Then everything is ok till the next time (usually a few days).

Just read ahead and noted that you fixed the problem but it's worth
mentioning that these symtoms also point to IP address collisions. IE
if linux spots another card with the same IP address it will
eventually shutdown it's own ethernet interface.

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