hi all,

a webserver running RH9 somehow didn't have an IP address that was statically assigned to it after 22 days uptime with no problems beforehand. it runs up2date -u once a week but last did that 5 days ago with no issues until now. otherwise the server has been on its own with no administration. ifconfig shows 12 errors, but i don't know how to diagnose the problem. random scanning of seemingly relavent log files was unproductive, and /etc/init.d/network restart restored connectivity. any suggestions where to look to try to diagnose a dropped IP address?

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:C6:46:CC:68
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:465844 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:622730 errors:12 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:17
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:59418906 (56.6 Mb) TX bytes:665590926 (634.7 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc00

thanks, -bp

You can always check /var/log/messages but really unsure. My server did something like this once, very strange where it was connected, running, and at some point, it just dropped not the IP but just eth0. I had to bring down and back up, add my default gw and route.. all is good now, no problems since.

yes, I've had this problem too. I did pretty much what trickykid did - ifdown -a, ifup -a, and a bit of arbitrary re-configuration...

thx for the replies, now i know it's not just me. maybe time to put a BSD on the webserver.

thx, -bp