net.eth0 keeps becoming unresponsive

tchaithonov · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 5 Location: New York

Hi All. I rebuilt my Gentoo late last month and a network problem keeps coming up -- whenever the linux box is downloading/transferring (Samba) files, eth0 automatically (without any error messages reported in the log files) shuts down and without unplugging the power cord, it can't make any contact to the DSL router. I wonder if anyone has an idea what I should look for, and if you know what to do about it, would you please kindly let me know? Thank you.

di1bert · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 963 Location: Oslo, Norway

Sounds like it might be a faulty card ? How old is the hardware in question. Would you be able
to put in another card to test this ?

You could check the output of ifconfig eth0 and check for RX and TX errors.

HTH

-m

tchaithonov · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 5 Location: New York

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:1B:B8:E7:32
inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::230:1bff:feb8:e732/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1981 errors:12 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:12
TX packets:2215 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1578253 (1.5 Mb) TX bytes:470682 (459.6 Kb)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0xe000

Hmm ... I don't know about the faulty card assumption, since this occurred once I completed the re-installation (i.e., there wasn't a depreciation stage). So, it sounds to me more like some bad network settings than a hardware problem.

This is my /etc/conf.d/net:

config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
dhcp_eth0="nodns nonis"

Could that be vmware that is creating the problem for me? Please let me know. Many thanks.