I'm running Redhat 8 on my laptop, and I have a 3Com Megahertz ethernet pc card. I'm using the 3c59x driver, and everything works for a bit. After about 30 minutes, though, eth0 loses its IP address and i have to do a ifdown eth0/ifup eth0 to get it working again. I don't think this is a problem with the network, because I've got a windows box sitting right next to me that's on the same network, and its network connection doesn't ever die. Any ideas what could be causing this?
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Probably not your 3Com card or the driver - I don't think the RH ifdown/ifup scripts actually remove and re-insert the kernel module to re-initialize the card, but they certainly DO restart the DHCP client.
Try using ISC's dhclient instead of the DHCP client you're using now.
You could also write down the IP address of your connection, do an ifdown eth0, and then manually configure your host with ifconfig to use that IP address (and see if it the connection goes away like it's doing now).
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