[LARTC] Ethernet interface shuts down

[LARTC] Ethernet interface shuts down

[nitin panjwani]

Hi All,

I have three Linux boxes running RH7.2 and each one of
these has two 3com Ethernet NICs.  I am trying to do
some routing stuff with these. 

Ethernet interfaces on these boxes shut down by its
own if I do not pass the packet through them for a
while. I am not able to understand why is it
happening. 

One more thing when I use “ip addr show” it shows that
interface is there , but ifconfig doesn’t. I guess
that is because ifconfig shows only the interfaces
that are up.

Any help on this will be really appreciable .

Thanks in advance,
Nitin


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Re: [LARTC] Ethernet interface shuts down

[bert hubert]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:44:32AM -0700, nitin panjwani wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have three Linux boxes running RH7.2 and each one of
> these has two 3com Ethernet NICs.  I am trying to do
> some routing stuff with these. 
> 
> Ethernet interfaces on these boxes shut down by its
> own if I do not pass the packet through them for a
> while. I am not able to understand why is it
> happening. 

I think you are running some kind of router daemon like routed, gated or
Zebra. Just turn it off.

> One more thing when I use ?ip addr show? it shows that
> interface is there , but ifconfig doesn?t. I guess
> that is because ifconfig shows only the interfaces
> that are up.

ifconfig -a will show it.

Regards,

bert

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