hi i have a dodgy cable modem which frequently cuts out requiring it to re-negotiate the link. my firewall/irc box often fails to come back after some cut outs.
sometimes the interface remains up with the correct IP address but for some reason it can't find anything on the 'net. the dhcp lease has been the same for 2 months now so it's not the IP address given to the modem changing. other times, after longer periods of outage the interface is dropped - is there a timeout? if either of the two happen above then i would like to do an /etc/init.d/networking restart - this doesn't work tho. the dhcp request never gets any where. so i have to reboot just to get the interface back up. any suggestions? TIA! -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
