So over the past two or three weeks, I began to notice about every two hours, my internet seeming to drop off and pause for - about 30 seconds or so. I thought that it was my ISP being dumb again, and kind of ignored it, but poked around casually just to make sure it wasn't something in my network. Turns out, last night I think I discovered the problem - 9.7 UTM.
Long story short, I found the issue in the Kernel Messages log. Eth0 quit unexpectedly, and was then being reset. Constantly. As in, all the time. I unfortunately could not capture the log files for this event, because the UTM then became completely unable to be reached, either from inside or outside the network. And, this was about 10pm my local time. Not a good night.
Luckily, I had 9.603-1 and a backup from that version available to me. I ended up having to completely reinstall my UTM and backup. I applied the two Up2Date version to bring it to 9.605.
Not one problem. None, since I went back to 9.6 and I tested the hell out of it. I was also not seeing the eth0 reset message any longer. When I installed 9.7, that was also about the time I started blaming my ISP for something that they really had nothing to do with, and while I love blaming them, I'm also really glad I never called. Been watching that log ever since, not seeing what I had going on there at all. :D I run my UTM on a 1U SuperMicro system with dual NIC and an Intel quad port card (this is all hardware I bought earlier in the year and created a nice big server rack in my house).
I've noticed a couple of other people sort of describe similar issues, so if you are on 9.7, check that log file and see if you are getting the same thing. For me, I won't be going back to that version. I might even try going back to *choking noise and gagging* XG if I have to, and try to learn that hot mess (for me). However, 9.7 seemed to be my culprit, so beware issues with this version. And yes, I do have an Intel based chip set card (Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I217-LM).
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