This is a phenomenon in Squeeze for the recent few weeks. A Linux router and workstation are connected with a crossover cable. This is on the router. Communication appears normal until after some minutes or hours it freezes so that "/etc/init.d/networking restart" fails.
dalton:/home/peter# ifconfig eth1 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:7e:00:e5:da inet addr:172.24.1.1 Bcast:172.24.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21d:7eff:fe00:e5da/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) dalton:/home/peter# uname -a Linux dalton 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Sat Sep 26 01:16:22 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Any ideas about the 0s from ifconfig? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Google "pathology workshop" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org