Denis Heidtmann wrote: > My plan at this point is to leave the computer up to see if it fails > while running. Also, I am borowing a card to enable more > troubleshooting, when the trouble occurs. > > Any other ideas? > > Once you can't ping the upstream modem, see if the interface is still up, has a valid ip address, a routing table, and an arp entry for the modem if it's directly connected. What I'd be trying to determine is whether it's a NIC hw faiure, OS, or TCP/IP stack bug.
Rather than me regurgitating all the commands for this, take a look at this page. http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch04_:_Simple_Network_Troubleshooting _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
