Backtrack IP resets every few minutes

[TopBot .]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:23 PM, TopBot . <topbot5 at googlemail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be
> > wrote:
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>> On 29/06/2012 17:11, TopBot . wrote:
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>>> For now I'm running this code to make atleast the internet browsing
>>> experience better but the connection resets have loads of other setbacks
>>> which are all irritating:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>> while true
>>> do
>>>  /root/Desktop/IPrest.sh
>>>  sleep 60
>>> done
>>>
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>> If you're going to run it every 60 seconds then a cron job would be
>> better.
>> Drop to a console and type
>>
>> crontab -e
>> (sudo crontab -e if it needs to run as root)
>>
>> Add the following line:
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>> * * * * * /root/Desktop/IPrest.sh
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>> Also, are you running as root? I hope that you're not running a GUI as
>> root?
>> I'm asking because of the /root/Desktop/ directory.
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> Yeah, I'm running as root, but don't think GUI is on root. Backtrack runs
> on root as a default. Anyway, the issue with running every 60 seconds is
> that it is not the real solution and all the connections are reset.. and in
> case the IPs are dropped before or *after* 60 sec, I've to run IPreset.sh
> manually again.... have made a quick launch for it by now. No I guess it is
> related to the network rather than my system.
>
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> TopBot.
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Alright, I think the dhcp got turned on some how and was initializing the
IPs repeatedly. Stopping that did the trick.

service --status-all
service networking
/etc/init.d/networking stop

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