On 1/10/11 3:12 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
My immediate hunch is ... and I'm sorry to say it ... but your NIC is often referred to as Realcrap NICs - unfortunately that's not without a reason.
Thank you for the discrimination, but it's not appreciated. This is not a multi-million dollar enterprise cluster, so please don't see it as such. It's an in-house development server and really doesn't justify thousands of dollars' worth of hardware. The NIC was working fine for about 2 years now without a hiccup, out of the box when we first installed CentOS. Something went wrong, I just don't know how to actually fix it without re-installing CentOS :)
A quick check would be to boot a live-cd distro or the centos install disk in rescue mode. If the nic comes up that way it's something in your software or configs; if it doesn't, it's hardware.
So are you saying a spook accessed the BIOS of a machine which was running for about 3 years, without any hardware changes? I don't, ever, change BIOS settings once a machine is setup.
Stuff like that happens. We've had a bunch of IBM servers that after running several years would start crashing randomly - and would be fixed with a bios update.