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