Under unknown circumstances one of a few major connectivity issues have occurred, usually accompanied by no easily distinguishable sign except that network communication (except, on occassion, icmp packets) are not transmitted nor recieved via the gateway address. For example, machines within a local network will be accessible while the machine cannot access the outside world (and vice-versa). On at least 3 of these occassions the problem was related to a netmask automagically changing itself, and in the remaining cases everything appeared correct (including the netmask). As of this point it has only happened on my boxen with 3Com NICs using the gentoo-sources patched kernel, the server with a vanilla-sources kernel and an Intel NIC has not experienced this problem as of yet. ... Enjoy, it's left me stumped.
Created attachment 6058 [details] route output This is what route outputs when external network communication problems occur.
Created attachment 6059 [details] lspci output This is what lspci outputs, listing the network card.
If you want me to grab any information, just ask.
May i ask do you intel cards push-pull alot of data? or do the 3coms do all the work? or do they all work hard?
well, cannot reproduce and there is not enough info to go further. can't fix. closing, Jay
Looks like we have Bugzilla database issues, bumping bug back to original CANTFIX status.