Random Network Droping, advice needed

[Jim Radford]

On Wednesday 17 Mar 2004 12:15 am, William Hooper wrote:
> Jim Radford said:
> > Hmmm, since I ran that command I'm seeing this in messages over and over
> > again.
>
> Is that the mii-tool command?
>
> > Mar 16 20:53:31 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth1
> > Mar 16 20:53:31 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth2
> > Mar 16 20:53:31 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth3
> > Mar 16 20:53:31 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth4
> > Mar 16 20:53:31 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth5
> > Mar 16 20:53:31 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth6
> > Mar 16 20:53:31 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth7
>
> Quoting the man page:
> If an interface or interfaces are not specified on the command line, then
> mii-tool will check any available interfaces from eth0 through eth7.

Ahhhhh, you're right. It puts those lines in messages everytime I run 
mii-tool.

I was running mii-tool -w to see if I was autonegotiating all the time, so it 
was adding those lines over and over.

I quick tail -f /var/log/messages and mii-tool has proved this. Mystery over.

Thanks.
-- 
Jim Radford
   "If at first you don't succeed - change the DC"