[plug] Weird network fallover?

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

It might be completely unrelated but I had a similar incident and it 
just happened that all that was happening was that the win box didn't 
like dhcpd for some reason.  So all I did was make it static and it worked.

Just a suggestion.

Andrew Furey wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I have a rackmount server running woody, with a LiteOn
>(onboard, I suspect) tulip-driver network card. This
>machine also has a VMware install of Win98, which we
>use for the various Windows requirements (which are
>few, fortunately).
>
>The VMware is set up in "host-only" mode, so the Win98
>has its own IP address on the same subnet as the
>server (as opposed to being masqueraded through it).
>We access the Win98 using VNC.
>
>This has worked fine for years (although they were
>reinstalled a few months ago), but over the last few
>weeks we've been having an increasingly-more-frequent
>(and more-annoying) problem. At seemingly random times
>(but possibly related to actual usage, since we don't
>notice it otherwise) the network will suddenly stop.
>
>The interface is still up with correct settings, the
>lights are on, mii-tool reports a connection, but
>nothing can ping through to/from either IP. There's no
>error messages of any sort when it happens, it just
>dies.
>
>The weird thing is, I can simply restart the
>networking system (/etc/init.d/networking restart) and
>it will be fine (without even reloading the driver).
>Until next time, which these days might be <30s...
>
>Has anyone seen anything remotely like this? Any
>suggestions (apart from a watchdog daemon / cronjob)?
>
>Thanks,
>Andrew
>
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