Re: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time

2000-01-31 Thread WH Bouterse
I too had this problem with a static IP and cable-modem setup. Civileme and Axalon helped me through my gripes and confusion, and yet it took me almost two weeks and talking on the phone with not one, not two, not three, but four tec-support individuals to track down the problem and it was one wh

Re: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time

2000-01-31 Thread AS T
I think you migh have hit it. Because when I boot under NT the problem goes away. Could you please tell me how to work around this. And perhapse if you can point me to some doc about this feature. Thanks alot. --- Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AS T wrote: > > > I have the followin

RE: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time

2000-01-31 Thread AS T
It is not my ISP simply because when I boot under NT the problem goes away. Also the traceroute stops at my machine when it doesn't work. Again the funny thing is the network comes back alive after some times (between 10 min and 40 min). I also tried several NIC (3com and Reltek ) and the probl

RE: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time

2000-01-31 Thread Lyle
What kind of NIC's are we talking about? And how do we know that it's not your ISP that's blocking the pings? Where do the traceroute's end? A traceroute when it works and when it fails would be usefull here. Also my ISP changed routers last summer and they now block all pings & traceroutes fr

Re: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time

2000-01-31 Thread Civileme
AS T wrote: > I have the following problem on my linux gateway > machine (at my home). > The machine has two NIC cards. Eth0 is DHCP via adsl. > Eth1 has static ip for my internal network. IP_MASQ > is on to forward packets from my internal network. > Everything works nicely, except that if I