[CentOS] network connectivity lost after reboot/upgrade

Tue Mar 5 17:28:29 UTC 2013
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On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

That's a suitable workaround for getting a system operational again.
In the end that is nothing more than a workaround, not a true solution. :-/

But it would have been helpful if you had shared more information (think
NIC model, NIC chipset, kernel module in use for that chipset).


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