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SME Loses Connection to the Router Randomly

Offline vegaslaptop

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SME Loses Connection to the Router Randomly
« on: April 08, 2008, 12:58:03 AM »
Hello everyone,

I have this unique situation that baffles me. I installed and transferred files to my 7.3 SME setup and now I have a weird problem. Very randomly the server will not be available on the network and if I go and unplug the ethernet cable and plug it back in, the connection is back on. After a few times, this is not working anymore. I have to restart the server and everything is back up again for a few hours (sometimes 3-4 hours, sometimes 24). I know many of you would suggest router, cable, connection, router settings... I have done all of that.

I replaced 2 CAT5 cables - nothing; replaced 3 routers - nothing; set the routers to reserve the ip assigned and tried different settings - still nothing. One time only in this past month I got a kernel panic error.

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<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

How can I turn on debugging to get a little bit more info on this issue? Every day I have this problem. I doubt it's the hardware but I am about to replace that now. Any ideas before I start installing SME on a different hardware?

I have not seen similar thing and I have installed SME more than a dozen times. Is this a problem with the current 7.3 version as I see somewhat similar problems when I search the forum but not exactly as mine?

Thanks in advance!
« Last Edit: April 08, 2008, 01:00:23 AM by vegaslaptop »

Offline pfloor

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Re: SME Loses Connection to the Router Randomly
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2008, 01:30:16 AM »
Did you try replacing the NIC card itself?
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Offline vegaslaptop

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Re: SME Loses Connection to the Router Randomly
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2008, 07:56:55 PM »
Replaced NIC card and all is good. The server is running just fine.

Offline thomasch

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Re: SME Loses Connection to the Router Randomly
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2008, 04:58:59 AM »
Replaced NIC card and all is good. The server is running just fine.

Can you please share to us what is the brand and type of problem NIC ? Are you replacing with same brand/type NIC?