More than a year ago I ran a Red Hat 7.2 machine on an AT&T connection with
an RCA cable modem and the same thing would happen to me.  I would have to
manually `ifdown eth0; ifup eth0` to get an IP again.  So to ease your
wondering, yes.  It has happened to me in the past.

As to how to fix it, there are probably several ways.  I would suggest some
type of script (shell/perl) that would check a reliable host on the Internet
and if the connection is down, then the script would do the `ifdown eth0;
ifup eth0`.  You could run this script via cron as often as necessary.

But that's just my duct-tape-and-chicken-wire solution.  There very well
could be a better way.


Mark Courtney


> Hi LUG,
>
> My brother has a Red Hat 7.3 firewall that
> loses it's link every once in a while (once every 2
> or 3 weeks or so) to Comcasts cable internet
> service. The "cable modem" is an RCA model,
> but I cannot remember the model number. The
> problem is that it doesn't seem to want to come
> back up without intervention. The connection is
> configured via DHCP.
>
> I was wondering if this sort of thing happens to
> any other Linux running users of their service.
>
> Troy
>




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