By the way, about the ‘Connecting…’ message, that means the controller cannot ping the router — the firmware is set to ping the router every few minutes to check if it’s still connected. If the ping requests fails several times in a roll, it will restart the Ethernet controller. So frequent ‘Connecting…’ means it’s not able to reach the router for some reason.
Obviously, when ping fails there is a problem with connectivity. Attempting to immediately reconnect upon failed ping seems like not the best thing to do. It will and it does cause OS to hang. Some timer should be set in place, like, if connectivity not re-establishes in 1 minute, give up, free up TCP resources, reinit timer, re-attempt connection. Seems OS is not doing that since a manual restart clears the “connecting…” display immediately.
Thanks