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Hardware failure from network card

Posted: 08 Jul 2010, 08:28
by Admin
This morning was a hardware failure from the network card.
We are working on it to fix the problem as fast as possible.

Re: Hardware failure from network card

Posted: 23 Jul 2010, 21:29
by Admin
We had again a network outage from the network card.
I contacted Oracle (old Sun Microsystems) to find out why there is no more a network connectivity with the e1000 driver on OpenSolaris.
They are investigating (I hope) on this problem.

Re: Hardware failure from network card

Posted: 23 Jul 2010, 22:32
by Saxtus
I hope for a quick and painless solution.

Re: Hardware failure from network card

Posted: 24 Jul 2010, 07:20
by Admin
Saxtus wrote:I hope for a quick and painless solution.
Me too. My Hosting service refused me to provide a e1000 Card with another chipset.
They have only VIA or e1000 Desktop Network Cards.

Re: Hardware failure from network card

Posted: 24 Jul 2010, 18:37
by Admin
I just wrote a gateway heartbeat daemon which checks now the availability of the next gateway.
If there is no connectivity, the server reboots automatically.
There should be no more outages which takes more than 5-10 minutes.
Additionally I asked Oracle to investigate if there is a problem with the e1000 network driver.

Re: Hardware failure from network card

Posted: 24 Jul 2010, 20:40
by Saxtus
Thank you for your time and care.
Still I hope you get to the bottom of this and solve it once and for all.

Re: Hardware failure from network card

Posted: 31 Jul 2010, 18:31
by Admin
Again an outage of 2 hours: The heartbeat script detected the network failure at 18:15:00 CET time.
I'm currently investigating why auto-reboot failed.

Re: Hardware failure from network card

Posted: 31 Jul 2010, 18:39
by Saxtus
Thanks for the promptly answer and disregard the e-mail I sent you.

Re: Hardware failure from network card

Posted: 31 Jul 2010, 21:46
by Admin
Saxtus wrote:Thanks for the promptly answer and disregard the e-mail I sent you.
No problem: The script has been repaired.
By the way: Oracle investigates now if the bug comes from TCP/IP module from the OS.