On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:57:19PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 07 January 2002 2:57 pm, Serge Rey wrote: snip > > thanks for the tips. with these and alan's suggestions i've got it > > working now. > > > > one thing i noticed is that yesterday, the connection would drop > > sporadically throughout the day. it was on for 6 or so hours, then > > dropped. last night it dropped 2x after an hour or so. it has stayed up > > overnight however, so i don't know if this was a temporary issue with > > cox - i don't think it is a software/config issue. the only thing that > > fixes the connection when it goes down is to power cycle the modem and > > bring the eth0 interface down and than back up. > > I heard this happen when people have used "pump" as the dhcp client program > rather than "dhclient". It seems to be that your dhcp lease runs out and it > is not automatically being renewed. > > try installing the debian dhcp-client package rather than pump. It comes > with a configuration file (/etc/dhclient.conf), but I have found it works > fine with the default of all possible parameters commented out. i decided to test the connection on the sacrificial windows box used to do the initial cable install. sure enough, on that box the connection gets dropped in the same fashion. i called cox and the tech ran some "tests" from their office and told me he needed to send someone out. when i asked him what he saw in the tests, his first answer was, well you probably have a bad nic in the machine. when i said i've tried the connection on several different boxes with different nics, he caved in and said, well the signal into your address looks a little funny.... they are coming this morning, so hopefully i can get back to productive work soon.... many thanks for the helpful posts. s. -- Serge Rey http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/rey.html Great God! This is an awful place. - Robert Falcon Scott at the South Pole, 1912
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