flaky residential router
rikona
rikona at sonic.net
Tue Feb 15 03:12:20 UTC 2011
Hello Thufir,
Saturday, February 12, 2011, 12:15:03 PM, Thufir wrote:
TH> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:49:00 -0800, rikona wrote:
>> Running Lucid 32 - I started getting the same problem after a recent
>> update - sometimes no network at all, of any kind, in any direction.
>> Rebooting brings it back [so far]. I was not able to get it running
>> without a reboot. In my case it is not the router because other boxes on
>> the router work fine. All is wired, no wireless. Before the update I
>> never had this problem - the network ran reliably. Perhaps something re
>> the update? Did your system work well before an update?
>>
>> Perhaps someone could suggest where and what to look for the next time
>> it happens, to help diagnose it.
TH> It could be the same problem. While I blame the router when the skype
TH> phone hangs or crashes, it could just as well be the phone itself. So,
TH> really, the situations are consistent with each other.
TH> In your case and my case, why would rebooting the computer fix the
TH> networking in a way that ifconfig isn't?
Good question - don't know. That's why ai was asking what to look at
next time to help figure out what is going on.
TH> thufir at tleilax:~$ nl /etc/lsb-release
TH> 1 DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
TH> 2 DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
TH> 3 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
TH> 4 DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS"
TH> thufir at tleilax:~$
I'm running 4 DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS" It seems .1 ran
a bit better - at least everything ran OK.
--
rikona
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