Re: network just stops...

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:28:38 -0400 "james tomlinson"
<uppity_frodo yahoo com> imparted to us:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a strange problem.  Once in awhile my Linux box's network
> just
> stops working.  I can't ping anything other than localhost.  I'm
> running Red
> Hat 7.0.  I'm able to get the network to respond again by running:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart.  After running  this I can reach the
> box.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out if this is a hardware or software problem. 
> But I
> don't know where to start looking.  Any idea.
> 
> Details:
> Red Hat 7.0
> Samba 2.0.7
> Apache 1.3.14
> Output from ifconfig:
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:57:AD:9C
>           inet addr:172.16.2.10  Bcast:172.16.255.255 
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:780946 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:1148603 errors:7436 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe800
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
>           RX packets:103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> 
> Thanks for any help!

What kind of a connection is it? I ask because it may be something to do
with lease expirations and all that sort of thing.

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