I've just setup a lab in the office to test out IPVS, and I'm using an AsusThat is what it seemed like, enough to kill a DVD burn.
p5q-ws MB with dual r8169 nics on board. This machine is acting as a load
balancer, and it's just directing packets to the web servers. Lots of
requests...
Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
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It is the first time I have ever seen it on this system, while running
2.6.28. I have never seen the error in the past (at least not that I can
remember/no log entries) for 2.6.27 or below.
Does it translate into a temporary network hiccup, say a few seconds,
or does it mean a final loss of networking ?
Yes it did.
Given the timestamp, the driver seemed to worked for some amount of time
before breaking, did it not ? It would thus be different from the usual
"no link at startup" problem.
# grep -i 8169 dmesg [ 0.428875] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
Can you send a complete dmesg, including the r8169 XID line ?