[plug] adsl trouble

[James Elliott]

Hi Richard

Should you have BOTH NIC's set up as DHCP servers? ... when the second one
gets around to handing out IP addresses you could find you have problems.
What do other PLUGers think?

James Elliott
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard" <rbarnes at westnet.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 2:53 PM
Subject: [plug] adsl trouble


> I have been having a few problems keeping the Internet connection up on
> my linux box via our new ADSL connection. We have a D-Link DSL 504
> router which runs a DHCP server and uses NAT to forward packets. I have
> two network cards (eth0, eth1) in my box (setup as DHCP clients) and
> have tried using both, with the same result...the connection seems to
> come up fine when I boot, but after a couple of minutes it seems to die
> for no apparent reason. I can easily get it back again using /sbin/ifup
> eth0 or 1, but after a few minutes or more the same thing happens again.
> I have looked through the config files in /etc/system/network-scripts
> and could not see anything obviously wrong (not that I would know an
> error in one if I fell over it in the street :) If someone on the list
> could suggest a few things for me to check I would be very grateful, as
> running /sbin/ifup every 3 minutes is getting a little tedious :) I am
> using Mandrake 8.2 and used there GUI tools to set up the cards in the
> first place (possibly the problem? :) We also have winxp and win2000
> boxes on the new router and they work fine, so I would assume the router
> is ok.
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