Re: pesky network connectivity on Dell PowerEdge 1850

2005-11-02 Thread Orville Canter
I solved this, sort of. There was another host on the switch that was answering arp requests (and pings) for my host's ip address. I tracked it down through the switch, but surprisingly, when I ran ifconfig -a on the offending host, no interface was configured to use that ip address. Yet it kep

Re: pesky network connectivity on Dell PowerEdge 1850

2005-10-05 Thread Orville Canter
I tried one more thing since I posted this. I installed an old 3com NIC, the system recognized it and loaded the 3c59x module. I get the same behavior, though--services (SSH and HTTP) start up OK, then after a little while, stop responding. The NIC is pingable during these outages, but I cannot

pesky network connectivity on Dell PowerEdge 1850

2005-10-04 Thread Orville Canter
Hello, I am running Debian 3.1 (Linux kernel 2.4.27-2-686-smp) on a Dell PowerEdge 1850 with two Xeon processors and two onboard Intel PRO/1000 network interfaces. I am experiencing a very pesky problem wherein I periodically lose connectivity to network services on that host. Currently I am