On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > I've noticed over the last few days that my LAN seems to get stale after > a day or so and needs to be restarted. Could this really be happening or > is it just my imagination? the machine has been up for 16 days now with > only one client connected via dhcp. I am sharing the internet dialup and > at times it appears to go south for the client as well until the network > is restarted. > any thoughts...ideas...flames?
I have a Mandrake box up 50+ days doing the same thing, sharing Internet connection via modem to 5 machines. Is the Internet connection slowing down or the entire network? If it is the Internet connection and you have a 3Com/USR modem you might be experiencing the spiral of death. In other words your modem needs reset. If you have Mandrake set to redial on failure walk over and turn the power off and turn it back on. It will redial and you should be ok for a few more days. Other things to check, how long of a lease do you have set up for your DHCP server? Is the client machine also Linux? I can tell you that if it is Windows (any version) and you do alot of network traffic with it, it is good to restart it every few days anyways, the TCP/IP seems to overload above a certain packet load. There's some thoughts..... -Scott
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