[cobalt-developers] Re: [cobalt-users] droping packets

[Dennis <dennis@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:49 AM 6/16/00 +0100, andy wrote:
>Hi all
>this is the second post of this message but i am desperate. My raq3 sudenly
>for no reason stars dropping 90% of packets. The raq is under low load. I f
>i reedoot it is usually ok for a couple of weeks. This time however i
>rebooted last night and 6 hours later it is dropping packets again. Any
>ideas how i can trace the problem with the logs etc? Could it be a faulty
>nic?

Its probably the eepro100 driver. It gets trashed easily.

Try doing

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 up

and see if it clears it up. This should reset the driver.


dennis
Emerging Technologies, Inc.
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