On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:25:42 -0500, GeekBoy wrote:

> Suddenly last night for no reason my box looses network communication. I
> was messing with it the other day, but have not touched it since then
> and it had been working.
>
> I use Asterisk on it making it into a voip server as well. I try to make
> a call and nothing.
> I go to the box and see lights on the switch and network card on also,
> but it is not communicating.
> Even trying to do htttp://localhost and http://(lan address) to the web
> server fails to connect.
>
>
> I cannot even ping the router, nor back to the box. Looking at the
> network settings on the card, it shows active and working. I then shut
> it down pulled out the other cards I was messing with (wireless & wired)
> leaving only the original.
>
> Booted it back up and it took a LONG time to boot (in comparison to
> normal boot time) .
>
> Once logged in I notice some apps take a LONG time to start up such as a
> terminal window.
>
> Looking through the logs I see nothing unsual. I also started the
> performance monitor and only using 200MB out of 2 Gigs of memory, and
> CPU usage averaging about 5%.
>
> Maybe I have been haxored? Anyone got ideas where I should look next?
>
> Thanks
>
> GB

Is the card up? Do an ifconfig eth0, what does it say?

ifconfig will tell you if everything is configured correctly. If the card
is up and configured correctly then it's probably a hardware problem.