On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 22:37, Buchan Milne wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, w9ya wrote: > > > O.k. Here's yet some more observations. > > > > I was premature in stating that conditions had changed. It now appears that > > sometimes a full dhcp lease is retreved, and THEN logging into kde via kdm is > > killing the interface etc. (eth0), and at other times the interface and lease > > never get completed. In both cases the drivers are there. > > > > Posting anecdotes about the things you were doing when something took your > interface down isn't going to help. > > If you want to try and fix this, post the output of 'ifstatus -v eth0' at > the time when the interface is up, and when it is down, and the contents > of your /etc/sysconfig/networks-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, and possibly the > drive your PCMCIA NIC uses. > > If you don't post any information that is *useful* for seeing what is > happening, this is a waste of time for all of us.
I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing was happening to him as happened to me with my WLAN card - ifplugd now tries to deal with it, and until this morning's updates it would launch then terminate itself a minute later and take the connection down with it. Now it doesn't seem to do that any more. Note: why the hell has Evolution just started wrapping at these ridiculously short line lengths? I didn't change anything. Fred? -- adamw
