For anyone interested, the problem with some user getting online and others not, after a lot of hacking and telewest (hiring a BT adsl line) swearing that it was nothing to do with them or there equipment and that we should use windows etc, turned out to be a faulty in line filter (provided by telewest/BT) on the line. I am not happy in some respects, and extremely happy in others. How could I doubt the ubuntu systems...? I sit ashamed.On Tuesday 14 August 2007 14:38:37 Gav Ford wrote: I am now going to live in a field for a couple of weeks. Thank you for your help & interest, it gave me faith and pointers and helped my ubuntu education. until sept...
M. :) te: > > nice thought, but there's no firewalls installed :(. > > > > I'm at a bit of a loss... it's basically a pretty standard install. > > > > the only extras are ssh and fail2ban, but neither of those should effect > > connections (that I'm aware of). > > > > looks like I'm gonna ave to re-install :( > > > > time and messages appreciated. Thanks guys. > > > > M. > > Another source of info could be when they connection fails open a > terminal and type 'dmesg', it should give you some info about what just > happened. > > Also you can try 'tail /var/log/messages' and 'tail /var/log/syslog' for > more info. > > One of these may tell you what just failed and caused the network > connection to drop out. > > -Gav -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/