OK, this was the network card (or was it). I replaced the old 3com with a new netgear, and all is well. There is still the question of why both 3com cards behaved in the same bad way...surely the 3com driver is stable?
(If it is, please make this bug a wishlist and file against some layer that could theoretically detect hardware "going bad"). -- networking dies under heavy load, unable to recover w/o reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132109 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
