Re: Internet shuts down. Bug in e1000 driver?

Kalle Anka wrote:
> Ok, so there is a duplicate adress. I have SunRay server v5.2.1
> installed, and I had to use static IP adress for SunRay server to
> install. So maybe I configured my static IP wrong?

Possibly, yes.  Have you looked at the addresses ... ?

> The thing is, most of the time there are no problems at all. Once every
> month, my network just dies for half an hour. The rest of the month
> everything works fine. That is weird? If there is a problem, the problem
> should be present all the time, and not just sporadically?

Yes, that's a bit weird.  The normal expectation for a duplicate address
is that it's detected fairly quickly and at least N-1 of the duplicates
are shut down automatically and kept that way until the problem is resolved.

But I can't do any diagnostics on your network to determine what might
be interfering with that.  It's possible that there's a bug that makes
the detection intermittent; I seem to recall problems in S10 that may
have caused behavior like that.  It's also possible that there's some
condition on the network itself that plays into it.

> What can I do? It seems to be overkill to reinstall everything? My
> configuration problem should be reparable? Should I wait until the same
> problems occur, and then do what?

Goodness, no.  Just change the address on this system or the other one.

If you're using DHCP for some systems and static addresses for others,
then make sure that your DHCP server either doesn't have entries for the