Troy.A Johnson wrote: > 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 It could be the IP lease timeout, I guess. If not, then just a guess, but I'd think you have a crappy combination of NIC/driver which bums out on you in certain conditions. Those are for you to determine, check /var/log/messages for example to see if the nic says why it's misbehaving. As reassurance, I can tell you that I have Slackware running on a Toshiba Portege laptop (which serves as a router) with 2 pcmcia nics, it too, gets its ip via dhcp. Welp, I left it a while ago and didn't even think of leaving a way for myself to get in. Just recently, I had a friend who happened to be near my house go in and check on it... everything's just the way I left it, with the uptime of about 200 days. That, sir, is on a _laptop_, and yes, there is daily traffic going through it (so it's not just sitting there blinking the cursor) Mike _______________________________________________ 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