[wplug] Odd file server issues.

[Michael A. Smith]

I know this is probably not what you were hoping to hear, but, "me too".

I have a couple of AOpen motherboards with built in Broadcom 5702 
gigabit ethernet that will occasionally lose touch with the network for 
no apparent reason. It's especially noticeable during long winded file 
transfers. That was months ago. After a few weeks of frustrated googling 
I plugged in LinkSys PCI ethernet cards and forgot about gigabit for a 
while (it was moot because the rest of my network was 100 at the time).

How would you describe the network connection dropping? Does the 
interface lose its IP address? Does restarting the network interface fix 
the problem for the time being, or do you have to do something more 
drastic, such as restarting the whole computer? If the connection 
doesn't always fail at exactly the same time interval, does it at least 
fail within a certain predictable window?

Karlos Abel wrote:

>Hello, all.
>
>I'm using an old Toshiba laptop as a file server.  It's running a 
>semi-stripped-down version of SuSE 9.2 that's been great so far.  However, 
>lately, the network connection has been dropping at odd intervals.  It seems 
>to enjoy dropping during SSH file transfers, as well.  I've tried going from 
>wireless to wired network connection, but no dice.
>
>I'm not even sure what information to include, but I can give any information 
>as needed.
>
>TIA,
>  
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