Restart of Router

[Tom Bell]

kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:

John DeCarlo wrote:


> > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Neil Winchurst <neil at holsdev.vispa.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
>   
>> >> Normally I leave the router on all the time. Occasionally I need to
>> >> reset it by turning it off and on again. If I do this with the
>> >> computer running I can't access the internet. I look in settings and
>> >> it all appears to be working. Eth0 is marked as enabled. I have to
>> >> switch the computer off and then reboot. Now everything is OK.
>> >>
>>     
> > 
> > You are correct that this should not be happening.  It doesn't happen to
> > me with my Gutsy install.
>   

It has always happened to me, on two different laptops.  I suffer frequent
power outages, which take the router offline, and the only way I've got it
to work is to power off the laptop (it doesn't even need to be a shutdown -
hibernate works) and restart.

> > 
> > Here is what should be happening, for your information, and where it could
> > be going wrong:
> > 
> > Your router is almost certainly set up to give out IP addresses to your
> > computers (via DHCP).  When you turn it off and turn it on again, the
> > connection is broken and things have to get reconnected.
>   

True.  However, the DHCP settings should be retained on your system, because
your lease hasn't expired.

BUT, what is happening in Network manager is that it sends out a DHCP
request and the router never responds.  While NM really should proceed to
use the lease you already have, the fact that the router doesn't respond
seems to be a problem with the router (unless, in fact, the wireless really
isn't sending the request, though NM thinks it is).


> > Finally, you don't need to turn off your computer.  Simply go into
> > settings
> > and disable eth0, then enable it again.  That should force it to go to the
> > router and get a new IP address.
>   
> John DeCarlo wrote:
>
>   
>> > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Neil Winchurst <neil at holsdev.vispa.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > 
>>     
>>> >> Normally I leave the router on all the time. Occasionally I need to
>>> >> reset it by turning it off and on again. If I do this with the
>>> >> computer running I can't access the internet. I look in settings and
>>> >> it all appears to be working. Eth0 is marked as enabled. I have to
>>> >> switch the computer off and then reboot. Now everything is OK.
>>> >>
>>>       
>> > 
>> > You are correct that this should not be happening.  It doesn't happen to
>> > me with my Gutsy install.
>>     
>
> It has always happened to me, on two different laptops.  I suffer frequent
> power outages, which take the router offline, and the only way I've got it
> to work is to power off the laptop (it doesn't even need to be a shutdown -
> hibernate works) and restart.
>   
>> > 
>> > Here is what should be happening, for your information, and where it could
>> > be going wrong:
>> > 
>> > Your router is almost certainly set up to give out IP addresses to your
>> > computers (via DHCP).  When you turn it off and turn it on again, the
>> > connection is broken and things have to get reconnected.
>>     
>
> True.  However, the DHCP settings should be retained on your system, because
> your lease hasn't expired.
>
> BUT, what is happening in Network manager is that it sends out a DHCP
> request and the router never responds.  While NM really should proceed to
> use the lease you already have, the fact that the router doesn't respond
> seems to be a problem with the router (unless, in fact, the wireless really
> isn't sending the request, though NM thinks it is).
>
>   
>> > Finally, you don't need to turn off your computer.  Simply go into
>> > settings
>> > and disable eth0, then enable it again.  That should force it to go to the
>> > router and get a new IP address.
>>     
>
> Definitely doesn't work.  Something like that _should_ work, because in
> essence that's all that's happening when I hibernate/resume, but I have yet
> to figure it out.
> -- derek
Have you tried "sudo dhclient"?

Tom