On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 23:36, Ken Foskey wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 22:31, Karl Bowden wrote: > > > 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). > > `ifdown eth0` and `ifup eth0` did not work?
Nope, it will usually not come back up, citeing timout problems, and if it does come back, the eth0 will send packets but not recive them. - Karl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
