re: dmesg -- no errors show up. at the bottom is a portion of what i see.
re: iptables -- i ran all the commands you listed, but they did not help. also, when i reboot, and restart 'network' ... it uses iptables (see dmesg), even though i turned off iptables using chkconfig and service.
re: hardware issues, not sure where to start. oddly, although i 'lose' network service (in and out), the green light on the network card is on regardless of network status (it does not turn off when the network drops).
i also stopped all serviced i did not need on this box (cups, apm [thought that might help since this box is old old old], nfs, pcmcia, sendmail), but that has not helped either. i don't think it's the network cord because the green light on the network card still turns on ...
any more thoughts?
thanks, doug
--dmesg output---- parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt 00:11.0: 3Com PCI 3cSOHO100-TX Hurricane at 0xfc80. Vers LK1.1.18-ac 00:04:76:f3:e9:fd, IRQ 11 product code 4d4d rev 00.12 date 07-22-02 Internal config register is 1800000, transceivers 0xa. 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. 00:11.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team -------
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