suse9 box still seems to lose the network interface, only record of this is the link status msg when dhcpd does its resolv.conf writing. need to see about turning on debug for this driver to see if any operational stats can be recorded.
The ssh connection was again dropped this morning do to a connection reset. Don't know if this is due to network connection loss or an ssh timeout config.
I'm not seeing the nfs timout errors previously seen with this error but that could just be do to lack of nfs activitiy.
the network interface seems stable now
I compiled the latest intel pro1000 driver for the box about a week ago and the network doesn't look like it's dropping out anymore.