[lug] Network connection dying mysteriously

[John Hernandez]

Can you provide more details on the ethernet link status when this
happens?  Do the counters in the 'ifconfig' output continue to change?
How about the output of arp?  Is the router's hardware address correctly
listed?

Have you tried swapping the Cat5 cable out?

Are you using the sk98lin or the sky2 driver?  If one of those, have you
tried the other?

siegfried wrote:
> My network connection is dying mysteriously. I did an image backup last
> night ("telinit 1; cp /dev/sda /dev/sdb") and that is the only thing I can
> think of that has changed.
> 
> After rebooting, I can ping my router but after 20 minutes or so I can no
> longer ping my router. I reboot again and everything is fixed for another 20
> minutes or so.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might diagnose this?
> 
> My network card is not a separate card, it is on the mother board. I run
> marvel drivers for my NIC card.
> 
> I suppose I could get a separate NIC card and plug that in and see if it
> fixes the problem. Uggg.. Any other ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Siegfried
> 

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