[ale] Another question

[J. Anthony Smith]

Daniel Boyd wrote:

> Hello ALE,
> WARNING!! This is long....
> Have recently attempted to install a new web server on campus here.
> It is a Pentium Pro 180 w/128MB RAM, four 4gig SCSI drives (two
> initially setup in a RAID1 array, now abandoned), 3Com 3c590 PCI NIC,
> RedHat 5.0 clean install (no updates loaded yet), Apache 1.2.5
> compiled from source, SAMBA 1.9.18p3 (compiled from source), Netatalk
> 1.4 (compiled from source), kernel 2.0.33 w/RAID145 patches and md
> compiled into the kernel.  I have since removed the md driver from
> the kernel, but have not removed the RAID145 patch from the source.
> The mystery is this:  When I first boot the box networking is fine,
> but after a ?random? amount of time all network (except Netatalk,
> strangely) simply dies.  The box can't see the attached network and
> nothing can see the box (no telnet, no web access, no ping response).
> Any ideas?  I will be glad to give more info if needed...
>
> Dan
>
> Daniel Boyd, CNA              Voice: 706/236-1750
> Network Manager               Fax: 706/238-7858
> Computing and Technology      email: dboyd at berry.edu
> Berry College         "We are confronted with
>                        insurmountable opportunities."
>                              -Walt Kelly

Hi Dan,
    I had the same problem with RedHat5. I think they had some problems
with the kernel network drivers but these have been fixed since then. In
my case I reinstalled with a new boot disk. In your case, if you don't
want to do this, you should be able to fix the problem by recompiling
the kernel with the new kernel source from the update directory. Hope
this helps.
Anthony