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 > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list