On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:11, Adolfo Bello wrote: > Stephen, > > This saga keeps going. > > Today, when receiving my emails (only Evolution was connected), the connection > to the LAN was lost. For a couple of minutes I couldn't even ping the gateway. > > I tried a few times with the same outcome: I couldn't get the mails and needed > to start all over. I realized that the only way to get the connection back was > by pinging the gateway. > > So I decided to hook the Linux laptop directly to the ADSL modem, without firewall or > NAT. No protection whatsoever. I thought it might be a faulty network cable or even >the hub. > > But then again, the same problem. And again, I needed to ping the default gateway > provided by the ISP to get the connection back. > > So I suppose there must be some faulty interaction between Mandrake and the laptop >NIC. > > I have never had this sort of problem when booting XP. > > I just wanted to let you know to satisfy (or tease) your curiosity. > Adolfo
For whatever reason, there seems to be consistent problems with using MCC to setup connections - no matter what the connections are. I've found that by manually editing the networking scripts as ROOT ensures connectivity and stability - there have been numerous other fixes as well, but doing it "by hand" (por mano) seems to be the winner so far. -- Thu Jan 16 09:50:00 EST 2003 9:50am up 2 days, 1:31, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.02 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin
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