My network problem continues. Here is as concise a description as I can muster:
1) New PK5000 Quest DSL router cabled to my desktop, my only computer. 2) Typically I power both the router and the desktop down and up a few times a day. 3) Failure means that pings to the router at 192.168.0.1 go unanswered. 4) Failure has thus-far occurred only at boot. Once it fails, it stays failed until reboot. Once it works, it stays working until perhaps the next boot. 5) Failures are random. The last full run of non-failures was 10 days. 6) Power-cycling the modem does not fix the problem. In fact, this morning after a boot which produced a failure I shut down the computer, powered off the desktop (switch on tower) for 10 minutes with the modem continuosly powered, rebooted and the network functioned. 7) I have run nmap -sU, ethtool eth0, route -n, arp -v, ethtool -S eth0, and perhaps some others. The only observation I can report is that when the network is up ethtool eth0 has an entry "1000baseT/Full" under "Advertised link modes" that is absent when the network is down. I conclude that item 6) absolves the router. Does 7) mean anything? Any suggestions for further diagnostics? My intention at present is to repeatedly reboot at the next failure without interupting the power until either the network comes up, or I become convinced that it is not going to ever come up. If the network comes up, then the power cycling becomes a red herring. If not, then... -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
