Topic: internet access goes down after 5 to 7 minutes after startup

[berzek]

The e-smith 4.1beta4 server works fine for 5 to 7 minutes using 2 network cards, an ADSL on one side and my local network on the inside. All works well for the first 7 minuts or so, after that the outside network cannot be reached nor pinged and the esmith server does not seem to show any responses to the outside network. System worked fine from the first shot of the installation (on first startup) but had this inherent 7 minute promblem. Any ideas or something we have missed in the settings??

[Doug Nordwall]

Try making yourself a cronjob that pings your gateway every 3-5 minutes. just a couple of packets is plenty. This is the one I use:

*/5 * * * * ping -c 2 > /dev/null

Now, my problem is similar, but the opposite. If I didn't have that cronjob on, my esmith would not be reachable from the outside. I found out that it's because an arp cache at my ISP is expiring. Give it a try, it may help