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Thread ID: 104465 2009-10-28 08:23:00 Ubuntu dropping network connection WarNox (8772) Press F1
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824962 2009-10-28 08:23:00 Hey!

I have an Ubuntu 9.04 box that I tend to keep turned on all the time. The PC has a static IP assigned and seems to work fine after a restart but after a few days/week 'something' happens and the connection drops. After this the computer can no longer be pinged, can't ping out or access any network resource.

It can still ping itself (localhost/own IP) but anything else I try and ping I get a 'network destination unreachable'.

If I restart the computer again it will start working fine. Anyone know what the could be? Disabling/enabling the network interface does not fix the problem. I've done any system updates that were available.

Thank you,



Gregor
WarNox (8772)
824963 2009-10-28 09:51:00 So I did some more fiddling around and found that by running:


sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

it seems to fix the issue. Although that doesn't really fix the problem permanently. I've also removed the static IP and set up a DHCP reservation on the router to assign it that same IP, maybe this will fix the issue.

Feel free to share any views as I still don't understand why it happens :)
WarNox (8772)
824964 2009-10-29 07:43:00 Sounds more likely to me to be a hardware issue?? Do you have another network card to try?

Is the existing card PCI - is it seated properly?
johnd (85)
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