Hi,

I keep getting this weird problem, that seems to come and go.

At the moment I am unable to transfer more than 4k of a file to my remote server (Plesk box, running FC2) using any FTP program (on windows). I thought this may be a specific Plesk problem, and have posted on the Plesk forum, however, I have had little joy in resolving the issue, and think it may be a more general network problem.

I have been getting the following errors consistently in my /var/log/messages file -

- init: Id "T1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
- dhclient: sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 (* this is after I restart networking - but I can still access the box)

I have checked the client side of things and they are all ok. Can access other remote servers without problem. Firewall rules all seem ok. Using lynx remotely works also, and I can also remotely retrieve files to the server (i.e. download stuff remotely). I have not been able to check using a different machine (win or llinux), but don't see that it would make any difference anyway.

This error is doing my head-in to say the least, and is making my server unusable.

If anyone has any ideas on a fix and a way to prevent it happening in the future then I would be extremely grateful!

output from ifconfig is as follows (* out my IP)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:63:C3:45:AD
inet addr:*.*.*.* Bcast:*.*.*.* Mask:255.255.255.255
inet6 addr: fe80::240:63ff:fec3:45ad/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:19748 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5728980 (5.4 Mb) TX bytes:4309734 (4.1 Mb)
Interrupt:15 Base address:0xe000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:365184 (356.6 Kb) TX bytes:365184 (356.6 Kb)

Get this after restarting network (service network restart) -

sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 1
sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
kernel: Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0375440(lo)
network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded

seems ok... what are the Privacy Extensions that are being disabled?

restarted networking using /etc/init.d/network restart and it works, however, if I use service network restart it doesn't....!! any ideas guys...