On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 17:43, Ian Millsom wrote: > I have a debian machine which keeps dropping its ethernet connection > around every 2.3 minutes. ... > Any thoughts would be appreciated.. Have you tried if this problem is Debinan/Linux specific? This way you can make sure that it is not a ghardware problem. I had some problems with a rtl8139 (not like your problems), e.g. DHCP has worked only rarely and it really was the hardware at the end. Bye, Steffen