I haved taht problem too, solve it, purging net-tools and installing again...
Thread name: "Must _reboot_ to restart network" Mail number: 1 Date: Tue, May 28, 2013 In reply to: Itay > > Hi, > > I started to have these problems since one of the recent upgrades. > > Symptoms: > - Computer works fine for a day or so. > - Then network spontaneously disconnects. > - ifdown eth0 [1] and ifup eth0 [2] (as root) fail to restart the > network. > - Reboot solves the problem. > - All other computers on our LAN work just fine during the network > downtime on that computer > > If it helps, see also [3] output of 'ifconfig -a', > taken while network is working fine. > > I would appreciate any help to figure this out. > > Thanks in advance, > Itay > > > [1] > gandalf:~# ifdown eth0 > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1-P1 > Copyright 2004-2010 Internet Systems Consortium. > All rights reserved. > For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ > > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:26:18:72:71:14 > Sending on LPF/eth0/00:26:18:72:71:14 > Sending on Socket/fallback > DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 10.0.0.138 port 67 > send_packet: Network is unreachable > send_packet: please consult README file regarding broadcast address. > Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf: smbd only. > > [2] > gandalf:~# ifup eth0 > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1-P1 > Copyright 2004-2010 Internet Systems Consortium. > All rights reserved. > For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ > > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:26:18:72:71:14 > Sending on LPF/eth0/00:26:18:72:71:14 > Sending on Socket/fallback > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21 > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2 > No DHCPOFFERS received. > No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. > > [3] > gandalf:~# ifconfig -a > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:18:72:71:14 > inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::226:18ff:fe72:7114/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:421 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:108436 (105.8 KiB) TX bytes:54108 (52.8 KiB) > Interrupt:20 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:156 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:156 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:9992 (9.7 KiB) TX bytes:9992 (9.7 KiB) > > pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr e2:9f:16:0e:b6:2a > BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) > > > > -- > 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/alpine.DEB.2.00.1305281256580.2649@gandalf.furmanet -- -------- Warning! ------------ 100'000 pelos de escoba fueron introducidos satisfactoriamente en su puerto USB. -- 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/20130528084757.gi4...@magnox.lex-sa.cu