avahi is killing my network connection from time to time

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Michael Schwartzkopff
<misch at multinet.de> wrote:
> Brian McKee schrieb:
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Michael Schwartzkopff
>> <misch at multinet.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using 8.10 on my laptop. When I plug in the cable of the network only
>>> after system boot I have reproducably problems with my network connection. I
>>> dies all 10 minutes.
>>>
>>> During an outage I find the following entries in syslog:
>>>
>>
>> I don't see anything there out of the ordinary.  avahi starts up when
>> your machine no longer has a 'real' IP, then removes itself when a
>> real IP is set up again.
>>
>> I think you're barking up the wrong tree.
>>
>> Tell us more about the symptoms.  It's kinda interesting that it's
>> .49, then .51 10 seconds later.
>>
>> Brian
>>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for your answer.
>
> But why does my computer loose the "real" IP? Nothing suspicious before
> avahi withdrawing the address record in th logs.
>
> Any why does this happen every 8 to 10 minutes.? Very annoying during work

So it happens when you are using the wired connection.  Just at work?
or at home too?  Cable ok?

Brian