James & Paul, Thank you for your suggestions, I will give them a try. Paul, it is indeed a SuperMicro with onboard Intel 82574L's. So I will try the kmod-e1000e package as well. Very grateful for your help to and to this list. Thanks, PJF On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Paul Heinlein <heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 8 Mar 2014, James A. Peltier wrote: > > | Every few months I lose network connectivity and have to restart the >> | server: >> >> What kind of machine are you running this on? If you have a BIOS check >> to see if there is an update available for it. Assuming that you have the >> latest BIOS on the machine try booting with MSI-X disabled and see if it >> becomes more stable. >> > > I'll second the suggestion for disabling MSI-X and add one: add > pcie_aspm=off to your boot-time kernel options. > > You wouldn't happen to be running a SuperMicro mainboard with onboard > Intel 82574L NICs, would you? If so, I'll also suggest installing the > kmod-e1000e package from elrepo.org, which includes a workaround for the > bad PROM that's involved. > > -- > Paul Heinlein > heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx > 45°38' N, 122°6' W > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos