Need help troubleshooting NIC

[Mike Galvez]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:24:39PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Mike Galvez <galvez at virginia.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Over the weekend one my servers went down due to extended power failure.
> > The file system reports clean, but something has gone sideways with
> > networking. The server is a Dell 2950 running 7.0 release, and it's been
> > working fine for well over a year. It uses the BCE driver. Ifconfig
> > shows it to be up and active and configured with the correct IP, mask
> > and gateway, but I can't ping anything.
> >
> > I've tested the ethernet connection with a nearby machine and it works.
> > I also booted the 2950 from an Ubuntu live CD and the NIC worked, so i
> > don't think it's a hardware issue.
> >
> > Is there a way I can rebuild the driver without having to rebuild the
> > kernel?
> >
> 
> What does netstat -r show?
> 
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> Adam Vande More
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Adam,

Thanks for the reply. netstat -r shows a segfault before it finishes.
The machine is back online, but I beginning to think that maybe the nics
are flaky after all.

netstat -r
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif
Expire
default            carruthers1-all-ro UGS         0   498375   bce0
localhost          localhost          UH          0      270    lo0
128.143.87.0       link#1             UC          0        0   bce0
carruthers1-all-ro 00:d0:05:34:40:00  UHLW        2        0   bce0 1197
Segmentation fault


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Michael Galvez 
Information Technology Specialist         University of Virginia