GREMLINS. Tom Penney wrote: >Perhaps something wasn't plugged in right, like crooked. I've had weird >things happen when the little wires inside of the female rj45 connector >bend over and touch the other ones. I've had strange things happen with >bent monitor connector pins too, more than once. Just a thought. > >- Tom > >On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 12:32, Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > > >>Mandrake9.1 on a dell optiplex gx150. >> >> >> >>Network worked fine yesterday, today I'm getting dhcp requests timed out. >> >> >> >>I jump though the hoops, set stuff manually using the last know settings - >>nothing works... >> >> >> >>then I unplug the cable, and plug in a new cable and run it to a different >>port on my hub - I do a /etc/init.d/network stop and then a /etc/ >>inint.d/network start - everything comes up just fine! >> >> >> >>So I go back to the old cable and hub port - do the stop / start and >>everything is STILL fine... >> >> >> >>what gives? Does the act of unplugging and plugging in a cable to the NIC >>reset something? >> >> >> >>I hate not knowing how a problem was solved!!! >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 >> >> _______________________________________________ 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