Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:08:44 -0700 (MST) | From | Brian Hall <> | Subject | RE: network interface still stops after 20 days 7 hours in 2.2.1 |
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I have noticed this type of problem on my firewall box, which runs 2.2.12. I just scheduled a cron job to reset the interfaces every night (DSL line with DHCP). I never bothered to keep track of how often it happens- it seemed to be less than 20 days, but not as frequently as daily.
On 14-Mar-2000 jeroen@shoutbynight.ath.cx wrote: > This is a problem some people seem to have with 2.2.12, but I'm still > having it in 2.2.14: > > 2.2.12: > > After 20 days uptime a network interface just stops, routing, ifconfig > etc. seems fine, just no network traffic coming in or going out. > No messages in logs. > Seems to happen on a 2.2.12 machine with multiple NIC's and multiple > IP's on NIC's. > The one describing the problem on one of the mailing lists rebooted the > machines every week -I've not been able to reach him-. > > 2.2.14: > > Got a machine with multiple NIC's, (3), multiple IP's on them, ipchains, > one of the interfaces is configured with ipx+ip. > After 20 days and 7 hours, the interface with ipx+ip stops, ifconfig, > routing etc. still seem to be completely happy. > doing an "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0" makes things work again. > > Summary: > A problem of 2.2.12 seems to be fixed in 2.2.14, exept for an interface > using ipx+ip (ehh, just a guess). > > Anyone having similar problems/had similar problems, the "20 days 7 > hours" seems to have something to do with it.
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