On Wednesday 17 Nov 2004 16:14, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Wednesday 17 November 2004 13:12, Peter Watson wrote: > > For ages I have used the excellent tip on Derek Jennings site for > > switching between LAN and dialup with no problems. > > > > However with 10.1 I find that it only works about 50% of the time, ie > > half of the time I am unable to connect to the internet with dialup and > > half I am not. > > > > I have disabled the firewall to make sure that is not the problem and > > checked everything that I can think of in my config files to no avail. > > > > Interestingly ifconfig and route -n both give exactly the same output > > whether I can connect or not. > > > > I am at my wits end, If Derek or anyone else has any advice I would be > > most grateful. > > > > TIA > > > > Pete > > Ardnamurchan Scotland > > So Pete when it fails, you do connect to your ISP and get an IP address? > And 'route' shows the default route is via dial up? > How about /etc/resolv.conf ? > Does it help if you 'down' eth0 first? > Is there a gateway defined in /etc/sysconfig/network ? > > I am not sure what might have changed in 10.1 that could affect it. Except > maybe it is something to do with IPV6. You could try disabling IPV6 by > putting 'alias net-pf-10 off' in /etc/modprobe.conf and rebooting. > > derek
Thanks for the quick reply. I think I have found the cause of the problem without understanding it. The only difference I could find between 10.0 and 10.1 was that with 10,1 I had network starting at boot, I have stopped that and so far it seems to work every time, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Many Thanks Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland
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