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Re: Network connections breaking after bootup



On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:09:44AM +0000, Tim Johnson wrote:
> 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 
> 

apt-get install sysv-rc-conf, and check what web related services are
started at bootup. It could possibly be a daemon that is intrfering with
your internet connection.

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