I'm having some networking problems on a Dell (Latitude C600) laptop with onboard ethernet and pcmcia wireless (linksys).
Here is my problem, after random amounts of time I loose my ability to connect to (or ping) anything (except myself which doesn't do me a lot of good). I do not believe this is a dns issue since IM connections will fail (which should have a constant open connection, or if not have the dns cached locally for a little while). I have semi narrowed it down to routing. Any time I issue /sbin/route I get a delay on the default route. When my connection fails the program stalls before it shows the default route. However I still can't ping internal ip's that don't go through the router (but I'm not sure that would matter, don't know exactly how route works). Some other observations is this happens most when I am using wireless, and even more so when I'm using wireless with a wep key. But it also happens on wired networks, and seems to be independent of time and usage. I also have a vanilla install, at least to the networking extent. My solution right now is to go into the network configuration utility (gui) and de-activate the interface, then re-activate it and everything works fine for a while, then I have to go and do that all over again. Questions: 1) how do i fix this? (obviously) 2) what commands does the de-activate / activate buttons in the network util. gui program run? i would assume the if/iw cfg and dhcp, but does any one know exactly so maybe I could narrow it down to a specific command that fixes the problem? Thanks for your help, and let me know if you all need any more info! ~Erich bulk@erich[ NO SPAM ]simmons.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
