A friends linux box connected to a Telstra Cable broadband connection decided to stop responding tonight, the box is setup using dhcp, and bpalogin.
>From what I can determine the DHCP request returns an ip in the range of 192.168.100.x instead of an external/usable ip. Is anybody else experiencing this? Has anybody else had this problem in the past? How should have I configured the box better? I also have an ADSL connection with IINET with a static ip. It uses pppoe and even though the ip is static I just let pppoe fetch it with dhcp. Ebout every 10 - 15 days of connection time these machines will stop responding to the internet. I can turn the modem off and on again and restart that connection but the connection is momentery. It is not until I reboot the machine that the connection will be established reliably again. What gives? Should I not use DHCP (Maybe it's a lease problem)? Thene is nothing in the logs to indicate what's going wrong. It just timeouts. It happens on both machines, one on cable in Sydney (RH8), and one on adsl in Forster (RH9). Regards, Karl Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
