Topic: losing internet connection?

[Mark R]

i have installed sme 6.01 without a hitch.
but after a while my internet connection goes down.
i can still access all the sme apps from within my lan, but cannot access the outside world.
it seems that my link to my router goes down.


    ISP
(BT - PPPoA) DHCP
      |
 NETGEAR ROUTER
  192.168.1.1  
      |
  192.168.1.2    
     SME
  192.168.0.5    
      |
     lan

thanks

[whistler]

Does the fallowing help?
ifconfig eth1 down
ifconfig eth1 up
There are some network cards, that drop the connection when the connection goes down (in example you unplug the lan cable) and do not come up on their own (tey do not autosense the network cabling, because they do not have 'media-sensing'). In example early 3c900 cards had such behaviour as I have experience.

Other type of problems could be related to unresolved names because of DNS failure

[Markr]

It does help if i restart eth1, i have looked at the proc list and its says that dhcpd is defunct

[RavenIV]

why do you need the netgear router?
SME can act as a router, too.

cheers

[Anonymous]

SME doesnt support PPPoA, btopenworld. ? and the modem u get with btopenworld is incompatible with linux(no drivers released yet)

[Anonymous]

i had the same problems a while ago to.
dont know if my sollution will help, anyway did u filled in ur dns on ur sme config?
i didnt the first time and after couple of hours my inet went down

[Anonymous]

?? im not sure what you mean ??

do u mean the master DNS? if i set that to my isp's dns it works ok, but i am unable to access sme domain names.

[bobk]

Some Netgear routers have a bed habit of dropping internet connections. Try doing a Google search for your router and check out some of the discussions on this problem, there are a lot of them.

[sgt-spam]

i have installed sme 6.01 without a hitch.
but after a while my internet connection goes down.
i can still access all the sme apps from within my lan, but cannot access the outside world.
it seems that my link to my router goes down.


    ISP
(BT - PPPoA) DHCP
      |
 NETGEAR ROUTER
  192.168.1.1  
      |
  192.168.1.2    
     SME
  192.168.0.5    
      |
     lan

thanks

I've got a similar problem, no Netgear though.

SME 6.01-1 hooked directly to my Toshiba PCX2500 cablemodem with TWC Road Runner.

ifconfig eth1 down|up does NOT seem to resolve the issue.

Every few days I end up doing a shutdown -r now and cycling power on the cable modem to 'fix' the problem.  Interestingly, I get the same IP address after each restart.  Quite annoying...  With power management enabled it was much more frequent - every few hours or so.  I'll try entering in the DNS information as mentioned above.

As a relative n00b to Linux, where should I be looking for clues on this?