peasth...@shaw.ca put forth on 12/12/2009 4:17 PM: > 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.
Interesting. > 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? Yes, it's not sending or receiving any packets. /etc/init.d/networking restart may have failed to bring the NIC back up to a working state, but it may have reset all the counters to zero. I'm not familiar with the networking code--just a user, making an educated guess. What changed the day before this started happening? Has the kernel/driver changed, or just userspace stuff? Also, what NIC/driver are you using? Does this situation occur only on eth1 or does eth0 also exhibit this behavior? How many ethernet interfaces does the router have? What is the make/model of each interface? Are you sure it's a software problem? Could the PHY on this NIC be going south? Have you swapped in a new crossover cable? Have you tried swapping the 'flaky' NIC out? -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
