[CentOS] NIC Throwing errors I dont understand

Wed Jan 22 18:43:13 UTC 2014
Jason T. Slack-Moehrle <slackmoehrle at gmail.com>

I am having an issue where eth1 is throwing some messages and stops
responding. Restarting networking doesn't work and also just bringing down
eth1 with 'ifdown' doesn't fix it. I have never seen anything like these
messages:

eth1: no IPv6 routers present
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_counters_cond == 1 (loop: 1000, delay: 10).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_chipcmd_cond == 1 (loop: 100, delay: 100).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_phyar_cond == 1 (loop: 20, delay: 25).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_phyar_cond == 1 (loop: 20, delay: 25).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_phyar_cond == 1 (loop: 20, delay: 25).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_phyar_cond == 1 (loop: 20, delay: 25).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_phyar_cond == 1 (loop: 20, delay: 25).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_phyar_cond == 1 (loop: 20, delay: 25).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_phy_reset_cond == 1 (loop: 100, delay: 1).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_phyar_cond == 1 (loop: 20, delay: 25).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_phyar_cond == 1 (loop: 20, delay: 25).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_phyar_cond == 1 (loop: 20, delay: 25).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_phyar_cond == 1 (loop: 20, delay: 25).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_phyar_cond == 1 (loop: 20, delay: 25).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_phyar_cond == 1 (loop: 20, delay: 25).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: rtl_phyar_cond == 1 (loop: 20, delay: 25).
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: link up

[root at mail jtsm]# lspci | grep -i net
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network
Connection
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 01)

DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:0A:CD:17:07:7E
TYPE=Ethernet
UUID=800623a1-adc6-401a-a3fa-c6d1348056c8
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=10.0.254.11
PREFIX=24
#GATEWAY=10.0.254.1
DNS1=8.8.8.8
DNS2=8.8.4.4

Does anyone have any ideas or have experienced this before.