The Tulip driver sometimes writes information to the logs. Do you have any lines like:
eth0: Transmit error, Tx status NNNNNNN.
or any other network-related lines in the kernel logs during the malfunction?
woody:~# more /var/log/kern.log | grep eth0
Mar 4 09:11:41 woody kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:40:3E:9B, IRQ 11.
Mar 4 09:11:41 woody kernel: eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1.
Mar 4 09:23:24 woody kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:40:3E:9B, IRQ 11.
Mar 4 09:23:24 woody kernel: eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1.
Mar 4 09:23:24 woody kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 45e1.
woody:~# more /var/log/kern.log.0 | grep eth0
Feb 16 17:44:29 woody kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:40:3E:9B, IRQ 11.
Feb 16 17:44:29 woody kernel: eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1.
Feb 16 17:49:12 woody kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 45e1.
Feb 16 20:28:28 woody kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:40:3E:9B, IRQ 11.
Feb 16 20:28:28 woody kernel: eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1.
Feb 16 20:28:28 woody kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 45e1.
Feb 19 15:14:47 woody kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:40:3E:9B, IRQ 11.
Feb 19 15:14:47 woody kernel: eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1.
Feb 19 15:14:47 woody kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 45e1.
woody:~#
All I found on the log before and after the problem since I rebooted at the time.
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