On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 23:46 -0400, Nat Gross wrote: > Hi. > On a Dell 4400, 1.6ghz pci based system which has two ethernet cards > installed, running 32 bit FC5 latest kernel, 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5, I > have the following emergency. > (This machine was upgraded from FC4 to FC5 yesterday and was rebooted > yesterday, a-ok, before the current problem struck.) > My config did NOT use eth1 (was deactivated), only eth0, and was the > only nic physically connected to the router. Tonight after a reboot, > this cpu ceased seeing the lan, and others coudn't ping it as well. > Fiddling around in back of the machine I noticed that the eth0 card > was loose in the socket. I brought down the system, re-inserted the > card, but still didn't work. So, I assumed that maybe the card burnt > out since it was loose. No sweat, I thought, that is why I have the > spare nic. I ran the networking applet, > deactivated eth0, activated (and plugged in) eth1, tried service > network restart, it showed eth1[ok] but.... no bytes, 0, nadda. Same > after a reboot. > I then copied /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 over to > ifcfg-eth1, UNPLUGGED eth0 from the router, set the ip address in eth1 > to the same as eth0 had, rebooted but still -NADDA-. > The queer thing is that it insists the both eth0 and eth1 are active, > regardless as to how I set it via the applet. (It reverts to active.) > Fwiw, I do NOT have the NetworkServices daemon active. > Hopefully I missed doing something elementary. > Your help is mostly appreciated. > -nat > Hi Nat, Is it possible for you to fallback to the previous kernel version. Seems like a lot of people are having problems with NICs switching places, and the one thing in common seems to be the latest kernel version. -- Pascal Chong email: chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://cymulacrum.net pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance appartient à l’humanité. et que c’est la flamme qui illumine le monde." -- Louis Pasteur
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