On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:31:55 +0200, George wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Simple ethernet networking can be "not that simple" :-) >>> >>> Are you using dhcp or any dial client (pppd)? Are you using >>> NetworkManager? >>> Can you still make local pings? >>> Can you browse the web if you specify the IP address of the host? >>> Ethernet card and driver? >>> >>> >> I'm using dhcp. I don't know if I'm using networkmanager. > > It is enabled by default, so if you didn't turn it off it should be up, > configured and running. > >> Once the problem starts I can only ping localhost. > > When it happens, run "/sbin/ifconfig" to get the current status of your > network adapter and also "ip ro" to display the available routes. > >> I can't even ping the gateway router. > > That can mean that you have lost all of your network card data (ip, > netmask, gateway...). The above commands will tell. > >> My /etc/network/interfaces is as follows: > > (...) > >> # The primary network interface >> allow-hotplug eth0 >> iface eth0 inet dhcp >> >> auto eth0 > > Then you are using a dhcp server to get all the data for the interface. > You will have to find out why you are losing contact with your dhcp > server, which I guess is configured in the router itself, right? > > As first step, you could (as root): > > grep -i dhcp /var/log/syslog
Thanks to everyone that replied, however the problem seems to have fixed itself. I don't recall doing anything special, other than doing ifdown/ifup a bunch of times. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinhkuj2zbeu8ucp5ns3ju+0gg42bdyf+qvmh...@mail.gmail.com