[Techtalk] ethernet card problem

[Maria McKinley]

John.Sturdy wrote:
> Hi Maria,
> 
> it could be that the lack of log messages indicates that the machine 
> itself (and its NICs) is operating normally (or at least, in a way that 
> it can't tell apart from normally) and the problem is elsewhere, such as 
> congestion on the network.  While the machine is in this state, you 
> could try "ping"ing other machines from it, pinging it from other 
> machines, and pinging other machines on that network segment from each 
> other.  You could also try using something like tcpdump or wireshark to 
> find what's happening on the network.  I wouldn't be looking at 
> replacing the motherboard yet.
> 
> __John
> 

Hi John,

When this happened (twice) I was unable to ping in or out (tried both 
ips and names). Ifconfig showed that it still thought it had the correct 
ip. This has not happened since, so I have my fingers crossed there was 
just some weird glitch in the network causing the problem.

thanks,
maria