Re: [SLE] Networking problem

From: W.D. McKinney (deem_at_wdm.com)
Date: 11/23/03

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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 23:36:05 -0900

    On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 23:22, Clayton wrote:
    > OK, I've been puzzling this one for a while now... and still can't quite
    > figure it out.
    >
    > I have a cable modem connected to a router, and my router does DHCP for the
    > machines in my home network - a desktop, and a laptop. Both computers run
    > SUSE9.0 with the SUSEFirewall enabled.
    >
    > If (for whatever reason) I do an 'ifdown eth0' and an 'ifup eth0' on the
    > desktop computer, it asks for an IP and gets one, but then cannot communicate
    > with any computer in the internal network, and cannot access the web. I
    > cannot ping and get a reply on any internet address at all. Same goes for
    > internal IPs. I cannot find anything in the message log that seems related.
    >
    > If I do the same thing on the laptop, it gets an IP assigned and immediately
    > has access to both the internal network, and the internet.
    >
    > The only way I've found to get the desktop communicating with the network
    > after I do an 'ifdown eth0' is to do a reboot.
    >
    > So... any ideas of what to look for? Why would doing an ifdown followed by an
    > ifup on this one machine block all future network access until a restart?
    >
    > C.

    I am running SuSE Linux 8.2 but if you use
    # /etc/inet.d/network stop/start

    Wouldn't that be better and work for you ?

    Dee 

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