5.x/6.x network stability

[John Pettitt]

Carl Makin wrote:

> Morning All,
>
> I've been having a heap of trouble with the primary network interface
> on a box that was running 5.4 and recently upgraded to 6.0-Beta5 where
> the interface would just go dead.  Nothing in ifconfig or syslog or
> dmesg would indicate a problem, but nothing would go in or out. The
> only way to fix it was reboot.
>
What sort of network card?  I've been having the same syptoms with a sk
driver gigabit card.