Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails

2015-03-07 Thread thegeezer
On 05/03/15 09:46, Marc Joliet wrote: Hi all, at work I'm (well, *we* are) facing an interesting problem. Since we are sort of stabbing in the dark here, I thought I'd ask here. Also, since this is from work, I will not be able to diverge very many details (not to mention that as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails (WORKED AROUND)

2015-03-06 Thread Marc Joliet
First of all, thanks to everybody who responded so far. I wanted preface my reply to Alan by mentioning that the local sysadmin made changes to the DHCP server that appear to have worked around whatever the issue is. I don't fully understand the error analysis (something to do with the DHCP

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails (WORKED AROUND)

2015-03-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/03/2015 20:45, Marc Joliet wrote: First of all, thanks to everybody who responded so far. I wanted preface my reply to Alan by mentioning that the local sysadmin made changes to the DHCP server that appear to have worked around whatever the issue is. I don't fully understand the

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails (WORKED AROUND)

2015-03-06 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 06 Mar 2015 21:35:45 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On 06/03/2015 20:45, Marc Joliet wrote: First of all, thanks to everybody who responded so far. I wanted preface my reply to Alan by mentioning that the local sysadmin made changes to the DHCP server that

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails (WORKED AROUND)

2015-03-06 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/06/2015 11:57 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: I wasn't aware you had e1000e hardware - those are about as reliable as they come. I've used many of them and never had the slightest trouble at all. By all means study up on firmware and driver options - if you don;t know much about that area it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails

2015-03-05 Thread Mick
On Thursday 05 Mar 2015 18:33:23 Todd Goodman wrote: * Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de [150305 04:47]: [..SNIP..] 1.) The NIC is brought up (some built-in Intel model). 2.) A DHCP client configures it. 3.) The network connection is lost at some point (the amount of time this takes

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails

2015-03-05 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Thu, 5 Mar 2015 13:33:23 -0500 schrieb Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net: * Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de [150305 04:47]: [..SNIP..] 1.) The NIC is brought up (some built-in Intel model). 2.) A DHCP client configures it. 3.) The network connection is lost at some point (the amount of

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails

2015-03-05 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Thu, 5 Mar 2015 21:19:46 + schrieb Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Thursday 05 Mar 2015 18:33:23 Todd Goodman wrote: * Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de [150305 04:47]: [..SNIP..] 1.) The NIC is brought up (some built-in Intel model). 2.) A DHCP client configures it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails

2015-03-05 Thread Todd Goodman
* Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de [150305 04:47]: [..SNIP..] 1.) The NIC is brought up (some built-in Intel model). 2.) A DHCP client configures it. 3.) The network connection is lost at some point (the amount of time this takes varies, but it can be as little as 20 minutes). 4.)

[gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails

2015-03-05 Thread Marc Joliet
Hi all, at work I'm (well, *we* are) facing an interesting problem. Since we are sort of stabbing in the dark here, I thought I'd ask here. Also, since this is from work, I will not be able to diverge very many details (not to mention that as a student worker I simply don't *know* many

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails

2015-03-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 13:33:23 -0500 Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de [150305 04:47]: [..SNIP..] 1.) The NIC is brought up (some built-in Intel model). 2.) A DHCP client configures it. 3.) The network connection is lost at some point (the amount of

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails

2015-03-05 Thread Mick
On Thursday 05 Mar 2015 21:46:12 Marc Joliet wrote: Am Thu, 5 Mar 2015 21:19:46 + schrieb Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Thursday 05 Mar 2015 18:33:23 Todd Goodman wrote: Is this a WiFi NIC? Is it possible the device is powering down? I've had lots of problems with