On 3/11/2004, "Martin John Collins" sickofthesea@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
I had it up and running in 10 minutes and it is a very good, cheap, little gizmo. However now I am using Mandrake 9.2 and I am having connection problems. The modem holds the connection but Mandrake seems to lose the connection to the modem and in order to get things running again I have to enter the command /etc/init.d/network restart - as root. So much so that this command is now a shortcut on my desktop.
Can anyone help here please? I went from Suse 8.2 to Fedora to Suse 9.0 to Slackware 9.0 to Mandrake 9.2 over a four day period and I don't think I can stand another re-install.
When I had my ADSL link installed, I went straight for the router (supplied by my upstream ISP - Zen Internet - they give you a choice) because it was a straight ethernet connection, rather than anything requiring drivers ;-)
As to your problem with lost connections, I had exactly the same problem and traced it to the router's DHCP software with the lease running out and not being re-generated. I assigned a static IP to my firewall to connect to the router's 10.0.0.x subnet and now all is good, with my internal network running on 192.168.x.x behind the firewall.
Matt