Random Network Drops on Realtek Interfaces (re)

[Gavin Atkinson]

On 22 Sep 2009, at 06:25, Cassidy Larson <alandaluz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been experiencing an intermittent issue with a drop in networking
> connectivity on a couple of boxes.
>
> At random times I drop connectivity between the servers and their
> gateway. I am able to login via the secondary interface and
> "/etc/netstart" and everything starts behaving as normal. My switch
> shows the link is up, ifconfig shows the link is up, but I am unable
> to ping my gateway until running "/etc/netstart".

Can you see if "arp -da" is sufficient to get the server online?

Thanks,

Gavin