broadcast storm?

[Josh]

Install tcpdump on that box and view the nic's traffic when it starts to
happen again.

   - Josh Reynolds

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Charlie Bullen wrote:

> Hello,  I have a server running RedHat 7.0 and apache that I am using as a web server, with a 3com 905 nic. 2 weeks ago it seems to have started broadcsting so many packets that the network upon which it is located became frozen. I rebooted and it worked fine untl now when t did the same thing. Any idea how I can find out what is happening nd keep it from happening again?
>
> My theory is that the nic is bad, although I'm not really sure
>
> Charlie
>