Loosing Ethernet Connectivity

[Derek Ragona]

Check your card's firmware, most by default are set to sleep on 
inactivity.  Make sure your's isn't set to do this.

         -Derek


At 09:12 PM 1/21/2007, David Schulz wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>every once in a while i have a machine (6.1) that out of the blue,
>sometimes after days, some after 6 months, looses Ethernet
>Connectivity. My Machines just run some Service, and have no
>Keyboard / Mouse or Monitor. When the Machine goes down, eg, i am
>unable to ping it from another Machine on the Network, even
>restarting the machine using "reboot" will not fix the Problem. The
>only way to fix it is to login as root, and issue a "ifconfig vr0
>down && ifconfig vr0 up". Then a dmesg Message appears : "vr0: Using
>force reset command.", and after that i can successfully ping the
>machine again. I have had this Problem on different machines with
>different Network Cards, on different Ethernet Cables, and with
>FreeBSD Versions 5.5 until 6.1.
>
>Can anyone please help me to understand and possibly even fix this
>Problem?
>
>Thanks a lot,
>David
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