Cable modem / Internet / Edgy 6.10 daily

[Richard]

There is something serious wrong with Edgy networking conenction,
via ethernet ( could be driver related) that is effecting downloading,
within a short time, the connection STOPs ( can't even ping out )
have to reboot the machine, then all is well... have included some stat's
for a Network Guru, to figure this one out. ( or maybe) edgy is still very 
buggy. ( just would like to surf, with out rebooting every 30 mins or so. )
Please note: did not have this problem with Dapper 6.0.6.1 at all.

Thanks -
Rich

PS:
when using ifconfig ( compare to window ipconfig) in windows, we could
release and renew, how does one do this in Linux ???
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rick at KB32bit:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:25:28:93:B3
          inet addr:24.92.160.221  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:576  Metric:1
          RX packets:21605 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3
          TX packets:12296 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:8014066 (7.6 MiB)  TX bytes:952583 (930.2 KiB)
          Interrupt:50

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

netstat -i
Iface   MTU Met   RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR    TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0    576 0     22082      0      0      0    12296      0      0      0 
BMRU
lo    16436 0         0      0      0      0        0      0      0      0 LRU

netstat -s
rick at KB32bit:~$ netstat -s
Ip:
    12836 total packets received
    2 with invalid addresses
    0 forwarded
    0 incoming packets discarded
    12834 incoming packets delivered
    12316 requests sent out
Icmp:
    0 ICMP messages received
    0 input ICMP message failed.
    ICMP input histogram:
    5 ICMP messages sent
    0 ICMP messages failed
    ICMP output histogram:
        destination unreachable: 5
Tcp:
    13 active connections openings
    0 passive connection openings
    0 failed connection attempts
    0 connection resets received
    0 connections established
    12750 segments received
    12259 segments send out
    8 segments retransmited
    11 bad segments received.
    4 resets sent
Udp:
    106 packets received
    5 packets to unknown port received.
    0 packet receive errors
    52 packets sent
TcpExt:
    6 TCP sockets finished time wait in fast timer
    25 delayed acks sent
    Quick ack mode was activated 2 times
    5602 packet headers predicted
    26 acknowledgments not containing data received
    218 predicted acknowledgments
    0 TCP data loss events
    1 other TCP timeouts
    2 DSACKs sent for old packets
    1 connections aborted due to timeout
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