No!! Messing about with the route and ifconfig commands never worked in my
case at least. After the ifdown/ifup sequence the routes are unaffected
anyway. I find it interesting that I have the same nic involved, the
Netgear FA311.
Thanks for trying to help though, I think you are the only one on this
list who had a suggestion.
Robert
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> Check out the "route" command. It is possible that your gateway is the
> wrong device. All installs of Mandrake on my machine (and recently a
> laptop at work) have had the gateway default to either the wrong device
> or ip number (.254) which kills network function stone dead - packets go
> out, but nothing comes back (of course)
>
> BillK
>
> Robert wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > I've had very similar problems. When I tried this list I got no reply for
> > an answer, so it's not solved. However, I found that if I run
> >
> > ifdown eth0
> > ifup eth0
> >
> > on one machine, sometimes both, everything works fine. I might bother
> > putting those in the rc.local.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Tom Stockton wrote:
> >
>
>
