Very Computer

I am currently trying to set up a Linux web server over an ethernet.  The
machine is a Pentium 100 with a 3c509b ethernet card.  We previously had
Slackware installed, which seemed to work just fine (it stayed stable for a
period of 3 days until we took it down).  However, we elected to installed Red
Hat instead, seeing as how it came with Apache pre-installed, etc.

I ran the network config program under X, and got the Internet connection
working, and was able to telnet to other machines,  as well as telnet into the
server remotely.  However, after a few minutes, the connection dropped and I
could no longer establish either an outgoing or incoming connection.    After
rebooting, the connection was up again, but after a few minutes the connection
dropped again.  This happened 4 or 5 times.

The connection did not drop after a specific event and did not appear to
happen after being connected for a certain time; it seemed completely random.  
We checked for IP conflicts and there were none.

Does anyone have any ideas what might be going wrong?

Thanks!

--Eric

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