Could you be a little more specific? What on your LAN seems to be going
south? Are you suggesting that the Linux Server on the LAN is going south?
Linux is not impervious to such things as hardware failure and
misconfigurations, but other than that, I've not seen Linux need the kind
of help you are describing. Windows boxen, however, are definitely in need
of rebooting every so often (for 9x it's twice a day, and NT/2000 more like
weekly or every couple weeks if you're lucky).
Could you be referring to your Hub or Switch? That would be what I would
think of when you refer to the LAN. Those things go bad as well and should
be considered the problem, if those are what you are rebooting weekly.
HTH,
Matt
Scott
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
> I've noticed over the last few days that my LAN seems to get stale after
> a day or so and needs to be restarted. Could this really be happening or
> is it just my imagination? the machine has been up for 16 days now with
> only one client connected via dhcp. I am sharing the internet dialup and
> at times it appears to go south for the client as well until the network
> is restarted.
> any thoughts...ideas...flames?
I have a Mandrake box up 50+ days doing the same thing, sharing Internet
connection via modem to 5 machines. Is the Internet connection slowing
down or the entire network? If it is the Internet connection and you have
a 3Com/USR modem you might be experiencing the spiral of death. In other
words your modem needs reset. If you have Mandrake set to redial on
failure walk over and turn the power off and turn it back on. It will
redial and you should be ok for a few more days.
Other things to check, how long of a lease do you have set up for your
DHCP server? Is the client machine also Linux? I can tell you that if it
is Windows (any version) and you do alot of network traffic with it, it is
good to restart it every few days anyways, the TCP/IP seems to overload
above a certain packet load.
There's some thoughts.....
-Scott
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