Topic: network dropping out

[Ron LeVine]

Greetings:

I am trying to get my new box online and reliable. It is running on a Asus Terminator box with a 1.0 Ghz Duron and 128Mb ram. There is an on-board Realtek 8139 Nic and I installed a secondary Realtek 8139 nic for the gateway duties.

When It boots up, both nics are lit up and connected until the admin screen appears. Then the outbound nic drops out.

I installed a secondary nic of the same type and disabled the onboard nic as well. But to no avail.

Any thoughts before I go to a full distro and the hard way???

Thanks in advance
Ron

[Nathan Fowler]

I've seen some issues with dual Real-tek cards in E-Smith boxes, it's been such a long time since I've had that problem that I can't remember what I ended up doing other than getting a 3Com 905C.  E-Smith is an excellent, easily configured, secure, and robust implementation of Linux.  I'm well versed in Linux and the distributions available and without a doubt would sacrifice $60 for another NIC (You only need one, a RealTek + 3Com will work) for E-Smith.

Hope this helped,
Nathan

[Ron LeVine]

Tried the above response: no effect.

I think the CPU might be over heating. I am going to install the hardware in a larger case tonight and try it again.

Thanks
Ron

[Ron LeVine]

OK, here is the solution - It was a bad drive. I put a new 80Gb drive in the server and the problem followed it to all the corresponding computers. When I put the drive into one of my non-terminator boxes, the bios couldn't even detect the drive at all.

New drive is on the way.

Thanks for the help
Ron