NIC stops working suddenly
Hi all,
I have a RHEL 4 update 3 OS, my NIC suddenly stops working and there is no lights flushing (green and orange) if i leave the server for a while (like one hour). But when i do service network restart, life goes back to NIC and all the lights flushing normally and ping works great, but also after a while the NIC dies again.... it needs service network restart every while. I checked system logs --> kernel: tg3: eth0: link is down. I also checked the /etc/modprobe.conf, alias eth0 tg3 is the irq number ( set to unknown ) in system-config-network anything to do with this??? or it is a hardware problem or there is any services that blocks the network service after a while, or the OS is frozen and stops the service.... PLZ answer me guys I really appreciate your help Regards |
Hi mhm,
This may be a stupid suggestion but check out you energy saving configuration on your motherboard bios and disable power savings on the network cards. BTW what's nic model and make? |
ok i will check it, but if its not the problem as i think because the NIC was working properly before what to check next????
Regards |
I would check to see if NetworkManager service is running. If so disable it and see if that helps.
To check /sbin/service --status-all | grep NetworkManager /sbin/service Networkmanager stop /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManager off Brian |
Thanx Brian about your help
In rhel 3.4 there is no service called networkmanager, any additional ideas pls... thnx mhm Regards |
That was my only idea. Based that on RHEL 5 which has NetworkManager service. Just to make sure since you wrote back in all lower case for the name NetworkManager, it is capital N and M in the name.
Brian |
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