On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:21:47AM -0500, T.Phan wrote: | Hi All, | | Is there a way to soft reset the cable modem and the NIC on | a Debian/Linux box?
'ifdown eth0' will shutdown the interface eth0 and 'ifup eth0' will bring it back up. | The AT&T Cable Modem some time loses connection, sometime it | resets itself. Afterward, the Debian box will no longer be | able to establish the connection until the debian box and | the cable modem are shutdown and reboot. If you power off the cable modem, wait a few minutes, and then power it back on what happens? With my ADSL modem I have no problem at all. Also, are you using PPPoE or DHCP? I have read that DHCP is more robust than PPP because a connection can be dropped for some time then resumed as if nothing had happened whereas a PPP connection is broken if the connection is dropped at all. HTH, -D
