[lug] NIC Error

[Gary Frerking]

I've been getting a sporatic error over the last couple of months on two 
of my Linux boxes:

  eth0: card reports no resources

Can anyone give me a clue as to what might be causing this? Do I have 
flaky NICs or something? Something not configured properly?

One of the boxes is a webserver, and the other is a mailserver -- 
neither is under heavy load.

One of the boxes is running Redhat 6.2 w/ 2.2.16-3 kernel.
The other is Redhat 7.0 w/ 2.2.16-22 kernel.

Hardware is identical, NICs are OEM Intel Ethernet Express PRO/100s.

Incidentally, I have a third identical machine (hardware wise) running 
Solaris 8 that has not had any similar errors.

I have not been able to tie the error to any type of event; such as a 
period of heavy usage or network scan or anything like that.

The error does not happen often; maybe once a month for each machine 
over the last 3 or 4 months -- so it's not debilitating, but I'd still 
like to correct the problem if possible.

Thanks much for any advice.

- Gary

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