[Techtalk] ethernet card problem

[Maria McKinley]

Wim De Smet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I was having intermittent problems with the onboard NIC of my file server.
>> People would complain about the network being very slow, and I would see
>> something like this in the logs:
>>
>> Mar  5 11:31:55 billie kernel: [548810.816011] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1:
>> transmit timed out
>> Mar  5 11:31:55 billie kernel: [548810.836475] r8169: eth1: link up
> 
> Have you tried switching out the cable? I find that this is sometimes
> just a sign of a bad cable causing the underlying connection to drop
> or causing the connection to reset to lower speeds.
> 
> regards,
> Wim

Great idea. Fortunately, it hasn't happened again, but if it does, this 
will be the first thing I try. Love simple, cheap solutions.

cheers,
maria