I just upgraded my kernel to 2.6.8-2-k7; now my network is mostly broken. I can access another box on the local home LAN (ping, ssh, sftp, etc), but I can't ping or otherwise get to my USRobotics wired/wireless router or beyond.
I can ssh to the other box in the LAN, and run a web browser remotely and get to the router and beyond, so I know the problem is in this box, not the router. I suspected it was perhaps an IPV6 thing, so I disabled the loading of that module by changing /etc/modprobe.d/aliases: #alias net-pf-10 ipv6 alias net-pf-10 off Now after a reboot the IPV6 module no longer shows up in the output of "lsmod". But the problem remains. Here's the contents of /etc/network/interfaces: > # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) > > # The loopback interface > # automatically added when upgrading > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian > installation > # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) > # automatically added when upgrading > auto eth0 > #iface eth0 inet static > # address 192.168.123.2 > # netmask 255.255.255.0 > # network 192.168.123.0 > # broadcast 192.168.123.255 > # gateway 192.168.123.254 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp If I switch to the static numbers above and comment out the dhcp, and restart networking, the problem still remains. Here's the output of "ifconfig" (using the dhcp entry above): > enjae[westk]:/home/westk> sudo ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:E3:06:C0:7B > inet addr:192.168.123.108 Bcast:192.168.123.255 > Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:34933 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:37894 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:18638456 (17.7 MiB) TX bytes:15615368 (14.8 MiB) > Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec00 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:11905 (11.6 KiB) TX bytes:11905 (11.6 KiB) For comparison, here's the output of "ifconfig" on the other box on the LAN (through which I'm ssh'd and running Thunderbird remotely to write this email): > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo ifconfig > Password: > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E8:11:83:F7 > inet addr:192.168.123.176 Bcast:192.168.123.255 > Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::200:e8ff:fe11:83f7/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:6188511 errors:66 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:66 > TX packets:4477232 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:3419924488 (3.1 GiB) TX bytes:457839904 (436.6 MiB) > Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd000 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:118589 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:118589 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:80098696 (76.3 MiB) TX bytes:80098696 (76.3 MiB) I have firmcoded within the router the DHCP addresses given out to these boxes, which is why separated by such a large gap, and which indicates that the broken box is getting dhcp information from the router. I'd drop back to my earlier kernel, except my / partition is too small to hold more than one kernel at a time, so I killed the /lib/modules for that older kernel to make room for the new kernel. (Seems like the old idea of having a smallish root partition bit me; more recently I've been moving to a partition size of about 500MB to avoid this sort of problem, but on this box, / is only 183MB, with 15MB free. I'm eventually going to have to rearrange partitions (ouch!), but not today, if I can help it.) Thanks for any help in getting my network back up! -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]