Dropping of network connection on Linux system

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, qx wrote:

> > Who is your internet providor?
> >
> > Do you have cablemodem, DSL, or satellite?

> It's intranet using ethernet connections.

> >
> > Do you get a static IP or a dynamic IP?

> I get a dynamic IP.


I wish you would not be so terse and give us more information to go on.

Can I now assume that you are trying to do this at work?

Are both machines plugged into the intranet directly (in parallel), or is
one connected through the other?

Is the intranet's gateway within your control?  What about the DHCP
server?  Are they the same machine?

Based on so little information, my first guesses would be:

1) Your DHCP server is only expecting to give you one IP address and it
takes a while for it to figure out two different machines are
sending DHCP requests

2) Your DHCP server is bound to a particular MAC address (the unique
number your ethernet card sends out)

3) Your Windows box is properly set up to get it's network info
dynamically, but you've hard-coded the Linux box's network info


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