Re: networking stopped working on sarge

["Kevin Murphy" <murphy2@speakeasy.net>]

From: "Miguel Griffa"
>> I'm probably missing something obvious here, but my sarge box suddenly
>> became unable to access the internet (and vice versa) the other day.
> the same here, make sure you have your net module loaded, then try to
> configure manyually (ifconfg eth0 10.1.2.2 up ie) that should give you
> an idea if the conf was messed or something more serious

I ifdowned eth0 and then brought it up manually as Miguel suggested (thanks
for the reply, M).  There was then no route out of the box (as expected, I
guess), so I manually added the route with 'sudo /sbin/route add default gw
192.168.0.1'.  At this point, things started working again.  Yay!  The
previous behavior, where /sbin/route would only report the default route
after a 30-second delay, seems indicative of a problem, since it's not doing
that now.  I still could use some advice trouble-shooting this, since
something in the automatic network setup seems broken.  Is there something I
should dpkg-reconfigure, or would that not be helpful?  After enjoying the
internet for a bit, I will reboot the box to see if things are still broken.

-Kevin Murphy