Anyone ever seen this nic card failing

[richard.ernst at juno.com]

Stephen White wrote:
> 
> Im have a really strange problem in running rehat 6.0
> and once a day the server nic card cant communicate
> it just dies can't ping out of in.
> No errors in messages or other logs it just stops working.
> 
> I went out on site and replaced the nic card a 3com 509b tpo
> card. I check the irq's port address with the 3com utility.
> 
> I doesnt hang the os when i get there the console is fine.
> the only way to fix it is reboot.
> 
> I was on site all day today ping flood trying to get it to fail
> i get back here at the office after its been working
> all day and its die aleady.
> 
> after a day of working and the server is not even in use yet.
> 
> I beginging to run out of ideas, other than go to a pci nic card
> instead of isa.
> 
> any one ever seen this before ?

First, it's unlikely going to PCI vs. ISA will cure anything, unless both
the original and replacement ISA cards were bad and you get a good PCI
one...  :)

Can't say I've had or heard of this problem, but a couple of thoughts. 
First, isn't that a PnP card, and if so, I'd suggest using the utility to
turn the PnP off and setting the card manually.

Otherwise, when you say reboot, do you mean a power off reboot, or just a
shutdown and restart?  If just a shutdown and restart works, I'd say it's
NOT the card, but some service that's timing out or crashing or
something, regardless of the logs.  Have you tried restarting just the
network related services/daemons?

Rich

mailto:richard.ernst at bigfoot.com


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