Re: mysterious loss of internet connection [solved, sort of]
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:49:10 -0500, I wrote:
> My Etch machine at home is connected to a DSL service via a Netgear hub
> (router) at home. Sometime in the last two days, the machine lost its
> network connection to the outside world. It seems to be a software problem.
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:38:23 +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> If that brings nothing, I'd suspect the problem is at the router.
Apparently that was the case. I now have my connection back, after playing
with the router's settings and turning it on and off a few times. I don't
understand just what the problem was, so it may recur.
It's interesting that there was a point where I had a connection if I booted
from the XP partition or booted the Etch netinst CD in rescue mode, but had
no connection if I booted Etch from the hard drive. I was wondering if it
had to do with which IP (192.168.0.??) was assigned but got no conclusive
evidence of that.
Anyway, thanks to all of you for the many suggestions.
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