On Wednesday 19 April 2006 12:40, shane wrote: > Hi All, > > Following the great advice of many people here, I made a little router > using IPCop. Very happy. It works great and fast. > > It was up for about 11 days and then however needed to be restarted. > > Does anyone know...? Is periodic starting of routers just a "price of doing > business?" Why does restarting help? > > Any thoughts are appresiated,
An IPCop box should not need to be restarted unless an external process interferes with it. This is normally the administrator (don't know how many time's I've done some bonehead thing...), or possibly your ISP. If you are on a telus line, make sure the red interface is using DHCP - not a static IP, even if you have static IPs. Telus has decided that it will assign your static IPs via DHCP, and if you don't do it this way, you can run into weird behaviors with the default gateway or name resolution. I recently saw an IPCop box that was running fine for months just suddenly stop. After a day of trying to figure out why networking was failing, it turned out that Telus had changed something on their end so the static IP assigned to the red interface wasn't working properly. When we switched to DHCP, we got the same IP assigned, but everything worked. If you are on a residential line, you need to expect your assigned IP will change periodically, and restarting the IPCop box is the easiest way to handle this situation. (or go to a command prompt and restart the network services). HTH. Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
