> I reported yesterday a problem that I have one Linux server where the
> network stoped working. The proplem occured again today. This time I did
> not reboot the server I only shut down the network and restarted the
> network again and it was working. I have no entry in an error log. This is
> a production system and I can not play much with it.
> This time I changed the network driver from de4x5 to tulip. I really don't
> know what else to say except that the network stops working without any
> reason no oops or any kind of output that would give a reason. The system
> worked stable for two month and I did not do changes to the system in the
> last month except increase the entry for file-max and inode-max.
> Thanks for any kind of help.
I had the same problem over here too...
if ifconfiged down & up, and everything was working again....
kernel 2.0.33
wouter@roadrunner:~$ uptime
9:05pm up 135 days, 1:25, 4 users, load average: 1.30, 1.41, 1.36
wouter@roadrunner:~$
root@roadrunner:~# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:2029373 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2029373 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:AF:CE:95:8E
inet addr:194.109.37.114 Bcast:194.109.37.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:47441388 errors:89439 dropped:89439 overruns:5289 frame:89439
TX packets:14841470 errors:8 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:58463
Collisions:114838
Interrupt:15 Base address:0x300
eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:AF:CE:95:8E
inet addr:192.168.102.1 Bcast:192.168.102.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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
root@roadrunner:~#
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