2009/4/21 Mangesh S. Umbarje <mangesh at gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in> > Dear All, > > I am having a HP xw4400 with following ethernet controller > as reported by lspci > > Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev > 02) > > This machine was running CentOS 5.2 without any problem. After > updating the machine with yum update on 8 April, after which it is showing > to be CentOS 5.3, this machine stops communicating intermittantly and I > see the following message correspondingly in /var/log/messages > > Apr 18 10:30:07 kernel: tg3: eth0: Link is down. > Apr 18 10:30:10 kernel: tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. > Apr 18 10:30:10 kernel: tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for > RX. > Apr 18 10:30:24 kernel: tg3: eth0: Link is down. etc... > > The interval for which it happens is about order of few minutes.The > kernel it is running now is 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5. Can anybody help. > Have you tried running with the old kernel from before the update to verify that it doesn't occur with that version? It is possible that the update is just a coincidence and you are actually facing link problems due to the card, the cable, the switch or any of the connections between... d -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090421/e5ce80b4/attachment-0005.html>