[mythtv-users] OT: NIC going away.

[phipps-hutton at sky.com]

Quoting Michael Watson <michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au>:

>   My MBE has started doing the same things, I was running a Realtek 8169
> and the Onboard Intel E1000 bonded, until this started happening
> (removed Realtek and bond setup, as I have had this happen previously
> when a cheapo Realtek card started failing), and the E1000 is loosing
> contact overnight (works flawlessly all day, then sometime between 2:00
> AM and 7:00 AM everynight, it stops responding, unable to ping its own
> IP).  A reboot fixes it.  System is 5+ Years old though, could possibly
> be failling NIC

And don't forget that NICs are always connected to another NIC at the  
end of the cable. I had problems that sound similar. They went away  
when I replaced the shabby ISP broadband router with a Netgear Gigabit  
unmanaged switch.

Cheers,
Tim.