Did you report this problem on Bugzilla? It sounds like you have done some experimenting. Chris On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, John Haxby wrote: > I have no idea, but I've been getting the same problem and its driving > me scatty. Now someone else is getting this I don't fee quite so bad. > > I have noticed that if I get disconnected at the keepalive time > (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time) -- I wound it down to about 10 > minutes and got disconnected at the keepalive time on the dot. > > Christopher Wong wrote: > >Here's some puzzling behavior. I have 3 machines running Red Hat Linux on > >our LAN that spontaneously and simultaneously get "disconnected" from the > >network. That is, they remain responsive and seem to hum along fine, but > >they cannot see any incoming network traffic. I ran ifconfig repeatedly > >and saw that the "dropped" RX packet count increases steadily (actual RX > >packets do not change). Shutting down iptables has no effect. "service > >network restart" will get eth0 going again, at least until the next > >failure. > > > >Any ideas as to the cause? What these machines (RH9, RH9 and RH7.2) have > >in common is that they are running 2.4.20 kernels (2.4.20-9 and > >2.4.20-13.7) and ntpd. Other PCs running a variety of OS and kernels are > >unaffected. Suggestions for investigation? Thanks.
