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Re: [solved] Re: Network suddenly stopped working



On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 02:32:12PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:16:13 +0200
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> 
> (...)
> > Your network clearly *thinks* it is up [...]

> well, as you may have guessed I am completely stupid when it comes to
> networking :)

Most of us are. I know I am.

> The symptom, as far as I can tell, is that just any attempt to connect to
> the internet failed. Trying to ping my desktop machine from the laptop
> just gave me "Destination Host Unreachable" messages. With ifconfig I
> could see that no IPv4 address seemed to be assigned. And trying ifdown
> followed by ifup was not possible, because ifdown seemingly refused to
> work.

When you posted ifconfig's output here, your interface seemed to be up,
so /something/ must have changed on the way...

[...]

> So either one of these commands did some magic or something running in
> the background fixed whatever issue there was.

Proceed with fingers crossed :-)

Cheers
 - t

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