6.2 Indy, ec0 gone missing?

From: Emery Davis (notareal_at_address.com)
Date: 07/08/05 

Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 12:50:42 +0200

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help me shed some light on this situation.

I have a 6.2 Indy which functions as a print server, and I have some
stuff on the disks that I occasionally need to glance at. No monitor
plugged into this machine.

A few days ago it disappeared from the net. I plugged a screen in
and looked at the SYSLOG, which contains the following messages:

ec0: machine has bad ethernet address: 0c:00:6b:08:3c:20

...

WARNING: Failed to configure ec0 as hobbes
WARNING: Cannot access primary interface, ec0

...

objectserver[914]: netif verif: error in create

Further, ec0 doesn't show up in the hinv (it does in my 6.5 Indy),
which seems odd.

I thought the nvram had perhaps been zapped as it started playing
it's annoying power-up tune, which I had configured as off, suddenly.
Indeed the nvram netaddr was wrong, but fixing it had no effect.
"hosts" is OK, in any case I haven't changed any config files in a
long time. The nvram eaddr can't of course be changed anyway,
being the serial number AFAIK.

The first message is new. The second part comes from /etc/init.d/network,
the objectserver stuff is probably incidental.

Any ideas of things I might check? Does it sound like HW maybe?
The machine is over 10 years old...

My thanks in advance.

-E 

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