Re: [cobalt-users] droping packets

[Jan Tietze <jptietze@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, but remember to do this on a console attached to the serial port...

Dennis wrote:

> 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.