[rescue] Help -- My Netra-J eats ethernet interfaces!

[Andrew Gaylard]

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:34:41AM +0200, Andrew Gaylard wrote:
> 
>>But I'm really keen not to throw away the box -- it works brilliantly
>>otherwise!
>>
>>What should I do?  I see these as my options:
> 
> 
> Did you check the battery backed up clock/ram chip? (aka NVRAM) If the
> battery died, or it got scrambled, your ethernet (MAC) address becomes
> 0xffffffff. At that point you will send out packets, but no one will
> listen.

Thanks for this advice.  I've checked, and the NVRAM is really fine.

Any other ideas?