hardware problem ?

[Net Llama!]

On 01/18/04 10:23, Vu Pham wrote:

> This morning my  server ( RH 7.2  kernel 2.4.20 ) suddenly failed its
> networking functions. This server has 3 network cards eth0, eth1, and eth2.
> 
> I still could login to it. top and ps does not show me anything strange
> except this line
> root       786     1  0 11:25 ?        00:00:00 [eth2]
> Restarting /etc/initt.d/network did not help.
> 
>>From the server, I could not ping or telnet to any other site.
>>From other workstations, I could not ping to it or telnet to it.
> 
> The only network operation I could see it from the outside is ARP. After I
> pinged unsuccesfully that server from my workstatiom, I can see its MAC
> address on my workstation.
> 
> What does that process [eth2] mean ?
> 
> Any tips that I can find the problem ?

Have you checked dmesg or messages for errors?

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