Re: lost nic

[Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com>]

At 06:55 PM 2/16/2004, Jacob S. wrote:

> If you have /etc/network/interfaces setup properly, I've found it easier 
> to simply do an "/etc/init.d/networking restart".

Yepper, that did it alright. Thanks again Jacob.

> Half guessing, half remembering the config files I sent you as examples... 
> This sounds like XP assigns the IPs dynamically, but you setup Debian to 
> think it's running static.

Semi-dynamic perhaps on the windows gateway? Because I found when setting 
up the network with xp ics that once assigned the ip's remained quite 
static. Matter of fact now that I think of it even when I installed debian, 
redhat & fbsd over three different windows boxes those ip's did not change.

Something dramatic from my xp workstation's pov must've happened in the 
past day or less. As said earlier I got an alert on my workstation today 
that a network cable had become unplugged. Of course that didn't happen but 
something did. Maybe I'll post this to a Windows tech list and see if 
anything comes up there; you know how it goes.... if this is a one shot 
deal I'm wasting my time but if it starts to become a pattern best to get 
some lead time on the fix that'll eventually be needed.

> Which means when XP gets half a mind to do something different (like a 
> "new" win98 box on the network), it will think it's reassigned all the IPs 
> properly (using dhcp)

If it was using dhcp wouldn't I see new ip's after every reboot of the xp 
box (about every couple weeks)?

> - especially after a reboot -

xp hasn't been rebooted for ~4 days now

> Meaning you could have an ip conflict on your network. In which case the 
> other computer with the Debian ip might be
> getting the ping responses that make the "Network unreachable".

No, I've checked all the boxes, there's only five on my lan. Plus all the 
names are in one place which is the xp box's host file; also I have apache 
servers running on 4/5 boxes and there are virtual hosts. And it all kept 
on working except the debian box.

> If the above is true, I would definitely recommend telling Debian to get 
> it's ip via DHCP.

But then I'd have to edit the xp host file each time or lose my virtual hosts.

> Then whenever the semi-daily XP reboot comes along

Wiseguy, eh?

> the Debian box will know to get a new lease on it's IP and change things 
> accordingly if it gets a different one instead.

Whatever happened it only affected the Debian box, not the fbsd or rh ones.

Y'know on the side I'm finally feeling a little comfort level with unix. 
Hitting an impossible problem that may become worse or never happen again, 
or that I might run into at a gig 10 years from now... now that's what 
makes computers fun!


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