Topic: eth0 goes down after high network activity

[exodus]

I have esmith 6 running in server only mode and use it as an email server and file server.  When I download or upload a large number of files either via ftp, http or samba the network interface will die.  Doing a ifconfig eth0 down then up does not fix the problem.  I can log in from console fine and do not see any problems.  This is a remote server so I can't really test too much exept on weekends when I can make the 2 hr drive to it.  I have set a cron job to reboot the system at night so at most I only loose conection for a few hours.  Any thoughts on what might be the problem?

Thanks
Sage

[guest22]

Check the NIC statistics through ifconfig eth0 and see if it reports an unusual number of bad packets.

[cc_skavenger]

look at your messages log file.  Are you using a 8139 based nic?

Had same thing happen with 8139 nic as it was going bad.....

run about 10-12 gb of data through it a day .... guess it was tired.