On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 02:01:26AM -0800, alan brown wrote: > I have 2 boxes with Debian installed. I thought I'd done things pretty > similarly but they must have diverged at some point, because one of the > boxes is prone to losing touch with the network. If the power adapter > slips out of my switch (if I knock it for instance) and is then > replaced, then one of my debian machines immediately knows its place in > the world but the other one needs rebooting in order to be able to ping > the other boxes or find anything on the internet. > > Does anyone know what might be causing this fragility in one machine but > not the other?
If each box has a different vendor network card, then yes, it makes sense. For instance, I once replaced all the PCNet32 cards in a bunch of IBM servers because they all got dumb when the link went away due to power failure like you describe. Since my employer wouldn't fire the guys who kept unplugging stuff, new NICs was the next best solution :) -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] NEWS FLASH: Scientists decode the first confirmed alien transmission from outer space ... "This really works! Just send 5*10^50 H atoms to each of the five star systems listed below. Then, add your own system to the top of the list, delete the system at the bottom, and send out copies of this message to 100 other solar systems. If you follow these instructions, within 0.25 of a galactic rotation you are guaranteed to receive enough hydrogen in return to power your civilization until entropy reaches its maximum!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
