On 2004.2.6, at 15:27 Asia/Tokyo, SHIBUYA Katsutoshi wrote:
Hi. I'm using RTL8139 based NIC and having a trouble.
It works just fine at day-time but it frequentry stops working at midnight (23:00-6:00 varing day by day).
When it occurs, all communications via eth0 device don't work; ping from the host to another host, ping from another host to the host, ssh connections, smtp connections etc.
When I unplug the ethernet RJ45 connector once and plug it again, it becomes work well again.
Once I tried "/sbin/ifdown eth0" then "/sbin/ifup eth0", but the device was still stalled.
Rebooting the Linux the connection became OK.
Watching the LED on the ethernet HUB, the link looks like OK and has signals.
No messages are left on /var/log/messages, /var/log/secure, /var/log/cron around that moment.
Finally I created a small script which checks the ping result to the neighbor host and if failed reboot the Fedora. (since I am tired to be a sentry all the night.)
I found a document mentioning about such problem;
http://linux24.sourceforge.net
Here they say "RTL 8139 cards sometimes stop responding. Both drivers don't handle this quite good enough yet."
but in the "Fixed" section...
How do you think about this problem? My host has been cracked every night? Or 8139too driver still has problem?
How can I fight against it?
Any suggestions appreciated.
#I'm sorry with my poor english...
First of all, thanks to Scott, mwafkowski and Richard for your valued suggestions.
While the connection was down, I tried "modprobe -r 8139too" and "modprobe 8139too" but the line did not become live.
After that, I changed my broadband router which is connected to the machine (by another reason; it was old and poor on speed). Then, the problem had gone away!
I'm not sure but the old router might have problem.
However, I understood that the 8139 chip is not a good choice, I'll replace it later.
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SHIBUYA Katsutoshi (shibuya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
