[CentOS] E1000 eth1 link flakiness - causes??

[E Westphal]

On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 18:01 -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> fred smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 05:22:38PM -0500, E Westphal wrote:
> >> Have  you experienced this? What's going on when this occurs? What do I
> >> need to do to keep it from occurring? Please advise. Thanks.
> >
> > could be a bad network switch. or a bad cable on that NIC.
> <snip>
> I've got a bad feeling about this. You say this is eth1 - is eth0 in use?
> Is it doing similar things? We had a similar problem, and the NIC itself
> finally died. I think I managed to make it work a bit better for a few
> months by putting wooden wedges from the hardware store under the box, to
> let more air around to keep it cooler.
> 
>         mark
> 

Yea - eth0 works fine all the time. It's only eth1 that acts up. The
last responder who said to look at a faulty solder joint has probably
got it right. I've got a bud who is a gosh darn good EE and amateur
radio builder - another one of us 'young' fellows who started out when
'core memory' was delivered by truck. Thanks all.

Ed
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