[plug] Fedora network issues

[Ian Kent]

On Sun, 30 May 2004, Ben Jensz wrote:

> I've been having issues with a box running Fedora.  Basically what has 
> happened is that the network traffic on the machine has pretty much 
> stopped working properly.  It was working fine up until Friday morning 
> and absolutely nothing was changed.  It all of a sudden started dropping 
> connections that were active (Samba shares, ssh connection etc).  Now 
> the machine can only be pinged by other machines on the local net, but 
> when trying to access it any other way the network connection appears to 
> initially start, but just dies.  For instance logging in via ssh, gets 
> as far as asking for a username and then the connection just dies 
> unexpectedly.

Have you added any other hosts to your network recently?

Ian