On Thu 25 Oct 2018 at 19:53:26 +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > Hi all, > early this morning a network card burned out. A few hours later, the server > was not responding on any network address, nor on the system console. I had > to > power it down. > > Upon rebooting, network errors were detected an I arranged the server to work > with the available hardware. The last line logged was an incoming email from > a > spammer in Brazil. It shouldn't have triggered any severe damage. I found no > breakdown hint in the logs. > > My theory is that the system didn't realize that the card was broken, didn't > turn the interface down, and kept storing outgoing stuff until it blew off. > Is > that reasonable or should I be more paranoid?
You have given an exact diagnosis of your problem - the network card failed. What's your problem? Replace it instead of agonising and theorising. -- Brian.
