On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:20:42AM +1000, Bruce McIntyre wrote: > Hello all, > > Twice this has happened; after running pon, my modem negotiates a connection > with my provider as normal and the resolv.conf file is updated with what > look like correct nameserver addresses---at least they are familiar. > > Pinging anything aside from localhost results in 100% packet loss. > > Even ping -f does not light the modem `TD' light at all. The request does > not seem to get that far. > > pinging say, www.google.com and running netstat gave: > > Active Internet connections (w/o servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State > > The report was incomplete, and netstat needed to be killed. Pinging a server > listed in resolv.conf (a numeric address) resulted in netstat giving a > full report (it goes on to report about unix domain sockets). > > I was stupid and did not think to pipe that output to a file. Switching to > single user mode and back ( a desperate measure ) did not help, but cycling > power fixed everything. Does anyone know what might be going on here?
Also, it may be a problem of your ISP. did you check the log file (i usually run plog -f on another VC until the IP number is addresses, you have to be root though) for the IP number, and tried pi�nging the local IP number, and if that works, the remote one ? Friendly, Sven Luther
