are you sure it is your whole connection? I was having issues with RR for
awhile where the DNS server would go down.. so I couldn't go to any
websites by name.. but the IP addresses worked fine..
Jason
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Paul M Foster wrote:
> I'm using a coyote firewall on a Verizon DSL line that I haven't touched
> in months. But it's acting a little squirrelly. The "connection" won't
> stay up for any length of time. I test it by pinging known sites which
> will respond to pings. When the connection falters (on the order of
> minutes between failures), I can kill the dhcpcd daemon, and reissue the
> dhcpcd command (/sbin/dhcpcd -d eth1) and it will respond with an IP.
> Moreover, it's the same IP every time (I have dynamic IP). Then the
> connection will inexplicably go down after a few minutes. And if I
> repeat the above, I'm connected again. I thought maybe it was a lease
> timeout problem, so I issued /sbin/dhcpcd -l 36000 eth1, but the
> connection went down after a few minutes anyway.
>
> Anyone have a clue why this type of thing would happen (_before_ I
> contact the retards at Verizon)?
>
> Paul
>
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