On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:35:53 -0500 (EST) Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder:
> 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 > Hi all, thanks for all the replies... (Rusty, Dave, Pierre, Matt, Civileme). I didn't mean to frustrate anyone with the question. It was actually more of a "fishing" expodition then a fact finding trip. Scott, you actually, without me telling you what kind of hardware I've got, hit pretty close to home and that was the object of my question and the reason it was posted as it was. some very interesting information which has sparked some new digging on my part. But to let everyone else know I "do" appreciate your thoughts and suggestions. the never fall on deaf ears. thanks all... :) -- daRcmaTTeR --------------------------------------------------------------------- If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:05am up 18 days, 23:54, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.17, 0.43
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