Strange Networking Problem?

[Bill Hayman]

Hello Keith;

Thank you very much for your time and input.  You were correct in that it
was not a Samba problem.  The nic I was using in the backupserver machine
was a Kingston KNE110TX/110B PCI type network card.  I thought, after
checking the hardware support list that it was a supported nic in Red Hat
7.0.  Apparently I was wrong.  After another 4 hours of attempting to locate
some type of setting or configuration file that might be the culprit, I
decided to change out the nic and I substituted one my old "faithful" nics.
I switched to an older Realtek PCI card and that appears to have done the
trick.  everything has been working nicely now for about 14 hours which is
far longer than anything prior.  If the problem should crop up again, I will
keep you posted.  I hope this is helpful to you and I thought it was
interesting that you had a similar problem crop up before.

Thanks again for your help, I am very impressed at the quality of
information and people associated with this group.  Wish others were as
good.

Sincerely,
Bill Hayman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Mastin" <kmastin at beechtree-its.com>
To: "Bill Hayman" <bchayman at pacbell.net>
Cc: <samba at samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: Strange Networking Problem?


> Hello Bill,
> Off the top of my head, I gotta say this is in all likelyhood NOT a
> samba problem. The disconnecting from the network sounds like it is the
> result of a cumulative phenomenon, possibly stemming from your NIC.
> I can only suggest to follow your instincts and change the card. I would
> also check dmesg, ifconfig, /etc/modules.conf, /var/log/messages,
> syslogs and netstat for any clues.
> I would also be interested to hear any results you can find regarding
> this, as I have run across something similar once before with no
> resolution.
>
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