>(without cycling the power) and something strange happened.
>
>My gigabit ethernet card (RTL8169 chipset on PCI card) simply
>did not work at all. The TCP stack seemed fine, but no Ethernet
>frames would ever go out. No arp resolutions would even happen,
>nor anything else. No amount of bringing down or up the interface
>(eth0) worked, nor bringing up or down the link (ip link set ...).
>
>I noticed that the activity lights on my gigabit switch for that
>port were continuously busy; but no traffic was entering any
>other ports. I examined the syslog and nothing out of place
>was found, except the expected things like NFS mounts failing.
>
>
>I finally powered the system completely off then on, and it has
>been behaving correctly ever since. No network cables were
>touched nor was the switch reset. Thus, this is no longer an
>immediate problem for me. But I wanted to report this in case
>there is some kind of linux problem and not just a freak occurrence.
I have experienced something similar - a long time ago. If I remember correctly I had a very old NE2000 card that sometimes ceased to work until powered off. But that was not with Linux. I also had problems with a very ancient Sound Blaster card. That was with RedHat around about version 5, I think. My theory is that the problem is with the hardware. The board hardware needs to be reset and this only happens with recycling the power.
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After updating to the latest kernel, 2.6.10-1.760_FC3, I rebooted
(without cycling the power) and something strange happened.
My gigabit ethernet card (RTL8169 chipset on PCI card) simply
did not work at all. The TCP stack seemed fine, but no Ethernet
frames would ever go out. No arp resolutions would even happen,
nor anything else. No amount of bringing down or up the interface
(eth0) worked, nor bringing up or down the link (ip link set ...).
I noticed that the activity lights on my gigabit switch for that
port were continuously busy; but no traffic was entering any
other ports. I examined the syslog and nothing out of place
was found, except the expected things like NFS mounts failing.
I finally powered the system completely off then on, and it has
been behaving correctly ever since. No network cables were
touched nor was the switch reset. Thus, this is no longer an
immediate problem for me. But I wanted to report this in case
there is some kind of linux problem and not just a freak occurrence.
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