Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

[Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>]

On Monday 14 May 2007 04:52, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:55:24PM +0000, Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> 
was heard to say:
> > Etch was installed yesterday via netinst. Network appeared
> > to configure properly - software installation from mirror
> > went without a problem
> >
> > The problem (sort of) goes like this:
> > I can boot the machine, and ping any nodes on my network.
> > I can ftp to another machine. Before long, I loose my network
> > connection - such as, open a ftp connection, upload something to
> > another machine (put), and when the ftp connection is closed, I lose
> > the network.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >--------
>
>   I've had problems like this caused by network-manager.  It arbitrarily
> decides that a working interface doesn't exist and shuts it down.  If your
> interface gets set to 169.something when you lose connectivity, that's a
> sign that this might be what's going on -- you could also check out syslog.
> Removing network-manager fixed everything for me.
   
  Hi Daniel:
  I ran `apt-get remove network-manager' and rebooted, but the problem
  persists. Any other ideas?
  thanks
  tim 

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Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
Palmer, Alaska, USA