linux box troubles

[KevinO]

Jim wrote:
> > What eth card do you have?  what driver is it using? what does ifconfig tell you? Are you on COX using DHCP?
> 
> rtl8139.  I'm not sure what driver it's using.  When I first installed
> linux, the cards were already installed.  During the installation they
> were detected.
> 

I had a problem like this a while back with a Realtek 8139 card. Try
replacing it. Although I still have a few of these around here that seem
to work fine, the one in question would just quit working once in a
while just like you described.

Logging in locally and restarting the network would restore it to
operation for a while. It eventually died completely.

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