Re: ethernet if goes down?

From: René Beer (news_at_beermail.de)
Date: 06/30/04


Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:20:05 +0200

Hans Anders wrote:
> Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
>
>> There's another small thread with similar symptoms. Can you get out of
>> the box by ip number? In my case, when it happens, I can ping my
>> nameservers by IP, but apparently never get names back until whatever it
>> is gets straightened out.
>>
> No, I can not even ping the nearest box by IP. That is, I can ping but I
> get no reply.

Just wanted to tell that I'm suffering with exactly the same problem with a
Realtek 8169. I thought it was the driver, but it now looks like some other
kind of problem.

ifconfig down / up does the trick _sometimes_. It takes about 1-20 down / up
cycles to bring it back to life.

René



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