[CentOS] network connectivity lost after reboot/upgrade

Tue Mar 5 14:22:19 UTC 2013
Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com>

Kai Schaetzl wrote on Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:15:46 +0100:

> Has anyone seen such a hardware failure where the link goes up but no 
> packets go over the wire? It seems a bit unlikely that this hardware 
> failure (and nothing else) should happen on a reboot after an upgrade.

It was indeed a weird hardware failure. All works fine with disabled 
inboard LAN and a cheap PCI network card.

Kai