On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 08:21, James Wilkinson wrote: > Bob Chiodini wrote: > > I can generally ssh into my home machine from work, but with FC3 I'm > > seeing the following in /var/log/messages: > > > > Nov 19 07:01:38 littlenail kernel: eth0: link down > > Nov 19 07:01:40 littlenail kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 > > Nov 19 07:01:53 littlenail kernel: eth0: link down > > Nov 19 07:01:55 littlenail kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 > > > > The ssh session usually recovers. I saw these messages in FC2 as well, > > but they did not seem as detrimental. Yum rarely recovers, at least not > > within my patience level. > > > > The driver loaded for the Ethernet interface is 8139too. Upstream is a > > DLink DI-624. Any insight? > > Looks like Ethernet problems to me. Can you try setting the Ethernet > link to 10 Mbit/s half duplex? 100 Mbit/s half duplex? (I have seen > Ethernet autoconfiguration cause major problems in the past). > > Use the ethtool command with the -s flag to play around with this: man > ethtool for more details. But I'd recommend: > ethtool eth0 > to see current settings, > > ethtool -s eth0 [speed 10|100|1000] [duplex half|full] [autoneg on|off] > > It might yet be dodgy cables. > > Hope this helps, > > James. James, Thanks. I'll give ethtool try when I get home, in case I cut off my own arm. It would be interesting to know the definition of the lpa bits. Bob...
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