Kernel: e1000e 0000:02:00.0: eth0: Error reading PHY register

In recent CentOS version 6.3 is an unresolved bug, which causes the network card to freeze the server. Following message appears in /var/log/messages kernel To work around the problem you will need to turn off Active-State Power Management (ASPM) (Feature that saves power in the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCI Express or PCIe) subsystem by…

UDP send and listen for passing messages and test connectivity

Setting up a listener in UDP : Install socat Jist here (Centos 6.6 : http://jist.sudoall.com/socat/setup install curl “http://jist.sudoall.com/socat/setup” | bash – socat -u udp-recv:8888 – To send the datagram : nc -u 127.0.0.1 8888 njoy 😉

Magic SysRq key

The “magic SysRq key” provides a way to send commands directly to the kernel through the /proc filesystem. It is enabled via a kernel compile time option, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ, which seems to be standard on most distributions. First you must activate the magic SysRq option: echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq When you are ready to reboot the…