On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:31:55 +0200, George wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> Simple ethernet networking can be "not that simple" :-) >> >> Are you using dhcp or any dial client (pppd)? Are you using >> NetworkManager? >> Can you still make local pings? >> Can you browse the web if you specify the IP address of the host? >> Ethernet card and driver? >> >> > I'm using dhcp. I don't know if I'm using networkmanager. It is enabled by default, so if you didn't turn it off it should be up, configured and running. > Once the problem starts I can only ping localhost. When it happens, run "/sbin/ifconfig" to get the current status of your network adapter and also "ip ro" to display the available routes. > I can't even ping the gateway router. That can mean that you have lost all of your network card data (ip, netmask, gateway...). The above commands will tell. > My /etc/network/interfaces is as follows: (...) > # The primary network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > auto eth0 Then you are using a dhcp server to get all the data for the interface. You will have to find out why you are losing contact with your dhcp server, which I guess is configured in the router itself, right? As first step, you could (as root): grep -i dhcp /var/log/syslog Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.03.02.15.48...@gmail.com
