Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > I have an Intel SE7525RP2 motherboard with a Yukon Marvel (82541GB > controller) NIC in it. After installing CentOS 5.1 it functions fine > for some minutes then looses network connectivity. By coincidence, I > was using the system to clean some HD’s for another and had booted off > Knoppix and noticed it never exhibited this behavior, the network > remained functional even overnight when I returned to the system? > > I looked through messages and didn’t see anything NIC/network related, > can anyone suggest something to check? > if it literally drops in a few minutes, run wireshark and leave it capturing all traffic on the LAN interface until it craps. then stop the capture, and look at the last set of packets.