On Thursday 29 November 2001 10:24 pm, you wrote: > 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
1. What does cat /etc/resolv.conf say? 2. What IRQ has your network card? What else uses the same IRQ? Civileme
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