Re: Lost internet connection after upgrade

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:51:17 -0400
Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> wrote:

> > Back again...with a different problem. Apt-get this afternoon updated the
> > dhcp client package on my Sid installation and now I have lost my internet
> > connection. The boot shows it is making the proper connection to my cable
> > modem, but neither Firefox nor my email client connects. Both give me errors.
> > Fri Jun 22 17:27:14 2007: bound to 192.168.1.8 -- renewal in 34291 seconds.
> > Fri Jun 22 17:27:15 2007: done.
    

>
> Don't know quite what you mean by the ^^^^^ above. That is what I
> see, I just took an interface down then up again, when it _does_ work.
>

    Just that DHCP **seems** to be ok despite the fact the internet connection doesn't work. That was an extract from the bootlog, not the result of lowering then raising eth0

> Try pinging your cable modem.

   I will but every attempt at pinging gives me "network unreachable". The non-working connection is on the other partition so every mail reply is followed by 2 reboots.

-- 
Cheers

Frank


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