Network locking up

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Todd Simi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am finding that I wave to run 'service network restart' every
> couple of minutes when downloading most anything.  Once I do, 
> the downloads usually continue as usual.  I seem to have picked 
> this problem up when I upgraded to FC5 from FC4 and changed motherboards,
> so I don;t know which caused it.
> 
> Mobo is  ASUS P5WD2-E Premium w/Pentium D (830)
> Net      OnBoard Marvell Gigabit
> 
> Any ideas if I might just have something setup poorly?
> What to check?
> 
> Thanks
> Todd
> 
> 
Try adding "MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes" to
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and see if that takes care
of the problem. Some NICs falsely report that they can detect the
link beat of a good Ethernet connection, and then report that it is
missing. If that is the case here, then this will fix it. (There is
a checkbox in the GUI for it, but I don't remember the name...)

Mikkel
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