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

[Judah Richardson]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 12:23 AM Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> 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?

How do I determine this?


> What model of NIC is it?
>
It's an onboard Realtek NIC.

>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Joshua M. Clulow
> http://blog.sysmgr.org
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