[mythtv-users] OT: NIC going away.

R. G. Newbury newbury at mandamus.org
Wed Feb 8 15:02:47 UTC 2012


On 02/08/2012 03:30 AM, Michael Watson wrote:
> On 8/02/2012 2:07 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>> The network has started to fail mysteriously in my mythbox.
>>
>>
>
> Curious.
>
>    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
>
> Nothing of any use in any logs, the system thinks it is working
> properly, just cant talk to anybody
>
> Ubuntu 10.04 - 2.6.32-38-server


Exactly the same with mine. The system thinks it is working but it 
cannot talk to anybody. To me, this points to a physical failure in the 
NIC. In my case, swapping cables does nothing, so it is not that.


Geoff


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