On Monday 14 May 2007 04:52, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:55:24PM +0000, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Etch was installed yesterday via netinst. Network appeared > > to configure properly - software installation from mirror > > went without a problem > > > > The problem (sort of) goes like this: > > I can boot the machine, and ping any nodes on my network. > > I can ftp to another machine. Before long, I loose my network > > connection - such as, open a ftp connection, upload something to > > another machine (put), and when the ftp connection is closed, I lose > > the network. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >-------- > > I've had problems like this caused by network-manager. It arbitrarily > decides that a working interface doesn't exist and shuts it down. If your > interface gets set to 169.something when you lose connectivity, that's a > sign that this might be what's going on -- you could also check out syslog. > Removing network-manager fixed everything for me. Hi Daniel: I ran `apt-get remove network-manager' and rebooted, but the problem persists. Any other ideas? thanks tim
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