Ethernet disconnects every few minutes then reconnects after a minute

DragonM15 · 01-28-2009, 10:58 AM

Hello all,

I recently updated my "server" to Slackware 12.2 (clean install). So far I have only set up FTP and ssh, mostly because if I connect through ssh after about 5 minutes, whether I am doing anything or not it just kicks me off saying client disconnected. If I connect via SSH it does the same thing. If I set my server to download something of medium size, say 500Megs with wget with timeout of 999 minutes it downloads about 10% and acts like the server is timing out, but its not because i can download with my laptop the full 100% no problem.

lspci output:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a)
00:07.4 Unclassified device [0080]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:09.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3512 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01)
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

cat /var/log/messages | grep "eth0"

Code:

Jan 27 19:48:45 linserv kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xc000, 00:0c:76:40:cf:8c, IRQ 19
Jan 27 19:48:46 linserv logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1:  /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.102 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
Jan 27 19:48:46 linserv kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
Jan 27 19:59:42 linserv kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Jan 27 20:00:28 linserv kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode

dmesg | grep "eth0"

Code:

eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xc000, 00:0c:76:40:cf:8c, IRQ 19
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100'
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device eth0 left promiscuous mode

Just to ensure ssh and ftp are not the culprit for the problem I set their respective timeouts to 100 minutes. Still have the problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks

DragonM15 · 01-28-2009, 09:19 PM

Nevermind, my bad for not thinking about ip conflicts....

Server IP: 192.168.1.102 (Statically Assigned)
Wii IP: 192.168.1.102 (Dynamic via DHCP)

With the Wii in standby my server can go places just fine, but every once in a while the Wii's wireless wakes up, causing the loss in temporary connection. Told the wii to get a new IP address, and problem solved.

Sorry for the wasted post.