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

[Michael Trausch]

Agreed.

You can hand both machines a static and stress it out. If it fails, do one additional direct connect test to confirm. The latter test should run indefinitely, while the first will die in the expected time frame if your hypothesis is correct.

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> On Sep 14, 2015, at 6:06 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.