On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:32:17PM -0400, Kevin Murphy wrote: > 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.
Perhaps ifupdown got corrupted? apt-get --reinstall install ifupdown net-tools (Note: ifupdown and net-tools are woody packages, they may have different names in sarge.) -- The world's most effective spam filter: ln -sf /dev/full /var/mail/$USER -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]