[ale] Centos 6 system on HP Pavillion - NIC chip appears to be going south - options?

[Alex Carver]

On 2015-09-14 15:01, Neal Rhodes wrote:

> My suspicion has shifted to the LinkSys 10/100 Workgroup Switch.    Got
> to think about how one tests non-managed switch. 
> 

You plug two machines into it (leaving off everything else) and then you
do  various speed tests between the machines until something blows up.
You could rsync, wget, netcat, ping, ping flood, all sorts of tests to
stress the switch to the max.