[PLUG] Network gets slow after a few days...

[Phil Tomson]

I don't recall right off hand what kind of nic it was.  This problem just
started to happen in the last month or so.  I installed Mandrake 9.0 back
in December sometime and this problem probably started happening in
mid-February sometime.

Phil

On 14 Mar 2003, AthlonRob wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 23:03, Phil Tomson wrote:
>
> > Any ideas why I would need to restart the network script on this
> > machine every few days?
>
> What kind of network card is it?  When you restart the network scripts,
> I think you reinitialize the NIC... and some NICs (I hear the earlier
> revisions of the 8139, for example) tend to poop out after a few gigs of
> transfers.
>
> A hack/workaround might be a cron job that restarts the network every
> two days around 0300 or so, if that's a possibility, anyway.
>
> Rob
>
>
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