I am have two sun quad 10/100 Ethernet cards using the sunhme "happy meal" driver as a pseudo switch. Two of the eight ports are set aside for transient devices (i.e., laptop when it needs a cable connection).
However, when nothing is plugged into the ports, the log fills up with the messages below. Is there an easy method of controlling the messages? - one every 10 minutes, or even better, only on status change? Or would it be easier to get syslog-ng to filter them? Feb 20 13:28:03 moriah kernel: eth7: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:28:05 moriah kernel: eth8: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:28:15 moriah kernel: eth7: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:28:17 moriah kernel: eth8: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:28:25 moriah kernel: eth7: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:28:27 moriah kernel: eth8: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:28:37 moriah kernel: eth7: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:28:39 moriah kernel: eth8: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:28:46 moriah kernel: eth7: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:28:48 moriah kernel: eth8: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:28:56 rattus fcron[5265]: pam_unix(fcron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Feb 20 13:28:58 rattus fcron[5265]: pam_unix(fcron:session): session closed for user root Feb 20 13:28:58 moriah kernel: eth7: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:29:00 moriah kernel: eth8: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:29:08 moriah kernel: eth7: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:29:10 moriah kernel: eth8: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:29:20 moriah kernel: eth7: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:29:22 moriah kernel: eth8: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:29:29 moriah kernel: eth7: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:29:32 moriah kernel: eth8: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:29:41 moriah kernel: eth7: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:29:44 moriah kernel: eth8: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:29:51 moriah kernel: eth7: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:29:53 moriah kernel: eth8: Link down, cable problem? -- William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> Home in Perth!
