Help with Linux and DHCP

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Well, if the IP Address did change, you would certainly see this
affect. :)

-derek

Scott Ehrlich <se at panix.com> writes:

> The reason I believed I had an IP address conflict is that this system
> randomly drops off the network (HP Vectra VL 5/133 w/HP PCNet 10 and 100BT
> card).  I thought a newer kernel would work, but it has made no
> difference.
> 
> Some symptoms include an ssh connection from the machine to any other
> system.  After any amount of time - seconds to hours, the connection
> freezes, and drops.  SSH connections in behave the same.
> 
> A ping test from another in-house system showed the system 'down', then,
> after about 30 seconds to a minute, back up.   The box, on a ping-out
> test, was also asleep for the same time, and awoke again.
> 
> APM is disabled in the kernel, as is with BIOS.
> 
> Any ideas on this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Scott
> 

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