Turns out it was a homemade patch cable that decided to start flaking out all the sudden ... had to slap my network admin upside the head. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Wilson Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 12:48 PM To: Suse-Amd64 (E-mail) Subject: [suse-amd64] Network interface timeout System: SuSE 9.2 x86-64 Pro AMD Opteron Tyan s2875anrf w/ onboard NIC. max open files still set at default 1024. Yesterday the server wouldn't respond to ping or accept new connections for about 25-30 minutes. The server was up and running but for some reason the NIC decided it didn't want to communicate for a while then it came back. Our server monitors reported the downtime. Anyone know why this occurred? -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help@suse.com