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yxis
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 Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 9:06 am Post subject: tulip/dmfe;DHCP;ethernet stops responding |
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hi.. i have a problem here i am hoping someone can help me with. My access to the web will suddenly drop, for no reason, randomly. It is not a NIC issue, as the problem persists across several interfaces. I am using the tulip driver compiled into my kernel, and the dmfe driver compiled as a module. i am behind a linksys DHCP router.
everything is great, except for the totally random failures... can someone help me pinpoint the cause of this? i have been using windows on the same machine, with the same NIC, and everything works fine, no random drop-offs, if that helps.
my /etc/hosts:
| Quote: | 127.0.0.1 littlepuddle.towlehouse littlepuddle localhost
#127.0.0.1 localhost
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is this wrong? i am not sure if towlehouse is actually the domainname... i don't know much about TCP/IP, but that is what the windows workgroup is called....
my /etc/conf.d/net:
i have this stuff uncommented:
| Quote: | # For DHCP set iface_eth? to "dhcp"
# For passing options to dhcpcd use dhcpcd_eth?
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iface_eth0="dhcp"
iface_eth1="dhcp"
#dhcpcd_eth0="..."
# For setting the default gateway
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gateway="eth0/192.168.1.1"
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i uncommented both NICs... only eth0 is set to come up at boot, however. as i mentioned, both NICs exhibit the same behavior as well..
for the default gateway i just listed the address i type to access the router from within the LAN... is that right?
weird thing is that i didn't have to mess with anything like this on any of my other machines... they justwork.
thanx in advance for any help!
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yxis
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:08 am Post subject: |
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ok, since noone has any ideas for a quick fix for this one, is there information that i can get from my system that i can use to diagnose this problem? i am new to the world of linux... are there log files that i can look at to see network traffic, or settings files other then /etc/conf.d/net and /etc/hosts to tweak? is there a good site i could visit to learn the basics of TCP/IP as they apply to linux environments that someone could reccommend? i am determined to get this system up and running smoothly...
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pachi
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:24 am Post subject: |
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why u have uncommnt default gateway.. i think your dhcp server will give u a default gateway.....
i think, maybe, your kernel miss some configuration... i can't help you so much :S
post more info... like iptraf, or something else |
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yxis
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 7:59 am Post subject: |
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ok i commented the default gateway... i will see how it goes. no idea where that iptraf file is, or if that is a command... if i find it or get the output of it i will post that too.
thanks for the reply!
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yxis
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| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:53 am Post subject: |
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i hate to resurrect this thread, but these problems with the internet suddenly refusing to work are REALLY pissing me off, and i need to solve them. otherwise i will be forced to go back to windows. does anyone have ANYTHING they can suggest?
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michaelkuijn
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Arghh this is annoying. I have a box with a Davicom onboard NIC which works with dmfe, and the thing is totally deaf and mute except every 50th boot or so. The boot then gets stuck at "bringing eth0 up with DHCP" or something. The logs say that it timed out waiting for a DHCP reply. My configuration is nothing exotic. Please help! |
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gtomorrow
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| I TOO am having this intermittent internet problem... somebody MUST know something. Very frustrating that (among other things) emerge --sync never completes. |
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