Because I am using a satellite broadband connection that isn't supported in Linux I have to use another computer on my lan as a gateway to the Internet. All the settings are correct and the setup works most of the time. Unfortunately, my system seems to forget the gateway on a regular basis. The fix is to restart networking and everything is fine again. When it has forgotten the gateway I can ping anywhere on the Internet via ip address but it doesn't find the name servers. I can ping the name servers and I have connectivity, it is like the system just forgets to use them. I can use the name servers from any of the other PCs on the network - just not my Linux box, until I restart networking. Has anyone heard of a similar problem? This is a new one for me with Mandrake 8.1. I didn't have this problem with 7.2 and essentially the same network setup. Any suggestions about what might be flakey?
Traci
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