I use my linux box as a router (ip-masquerading) for other PC's on my lan. I have two nics, one connected to an external adsl modem and the other one is connected to my switch. I used to have mandrake 7.1 and I didn't experience any problems. When I upgraded to 7.2...I started experiencing connection problems. It seems that my connection to my dsl provider will mysteriously drop for unspecificied amounts of time. Sometimes it will be only a couple minutes, but other times it will be for hours. I can easily fix it by either restarting dhcpcd, or I can just issue and ifdown eth0 command and then follow up with an ifup eth0. What is causing this problem? I remember I used to have the same problem when I used Redhat...and Redhat uses pump instead of dhcpcd. Any help would be appreciated.
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