[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster becomes unreachable over network after a certain length of uptime

[Joshua M. Clulow]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 17:47, Judah Richardson
<judahrichardson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been having an odd problem over the past few months in which my OI
> Hipster installation becomes unreachable over the network after a certain
> length of uptime. I haven't been able to determine exactly what this length
> is, but I usually become aware of it when restic jobs that use that machine
> as a repo start failing.
>
> When it happens, OI's DE network icon says all is well, and the LEDs on the
> NIC Ethernet port as well as corresponding switch port are blinking.
> Rebooting makes the machine reachable again, but the problem reoccurs later.
>
> The machine itself is pretty old so the NIC might be going bad, or maybe
> the Ethernet cable is to blame (odd, but Ethernt cables apparently fail in
> very strange ways), but I'd like to rule out anything amiss in the OS
> itself.
>
> Any logs or anything like that in particular I should take a look at?

What driver is in use?  What model of NIC is it?

Cheers.

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Joshua M. Clulow
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