<html><head></head><body><div><br></div><div>On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 08:04 +0100, Colin Law wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>On 2 September 2016 at 07:12, Chas IRONS <<a href="mailto:ironscf@telkomsa.net">ironscf@telkomsa.net</a>> wrote:
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My wireless router DWR-730 would not switch off last night, so it was on
this morning for me to run ifconfig -a
The result was:
chas@Charles-PC:~$ sudo ifconfig -a
[sudo] password for chas:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 10:c3:7b:6a:c5:ea
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 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:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
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:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:1500 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1500 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:111216 (111.2 KB) TX bytes:111216 (111.2 KB)
chas@Charles-PC:~$
You see there is no entry for eth1 at all.
I checked Menu bar/ Edit Connections and the entry is present and seems
correct.
So why is it not connected; just greyed out "Ethernet disconnected"?
Then tried to reboot the router that showed: Firefox can't establish a
connection to the server at 192.168.0.1.
Physically switched off the router and on again so it rebooted and connected
perfectly.
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What do you mean it would not switch off? If the router is behaving
strangely then possibly it is the router that is faulty.
Colin
</pre></blockquote><div>********************</div><div>Hi Colin</div><div>My router probably does behave strangely but I don't know enough to diagnose and my ISP is also unresponsive. I am waiting for installation of fibre telecomms in a month or two before moving on.</div><div><br></div><div>The DWR-730 has two buttons on the side. The top switch usually powers down with "BYE" message. Sometimes there is no response at all, so it stays on overnight.</div><div>You probably think I should leave the router on always; but I don't like it being available for baddies in other time zones to target it. I live in +2 zone.</div><div><br></div><div><div><span>I have been learning a bit about firewall and port protection, but it gets very complex. I installed ufw with its defaults and see different apps using specific ports but don't understand what settings, rules etc make sense.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Now that is getting off topic so I will try to learn more online.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Thanks again for your patience.<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br>irons.charles@gmail.com<br>Home +2711 782 8623</span></div><div><span class="-x-evo-signature"><br></span></div></div></body></html>