On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:49:23PM +0000, Kathryn Cassidy wrote:
> Hello all,
>> I've a problem with a machine which seems to fail to
> connect to the network properly about 4 out of 5 times
> that it's turned on.
>> There's no errors on bootup; the network card is being
> detected, the correct module loaded and all the network
> daemons are loading corectly, but once I log in (as any
> user) I find I can't ping any other machines on the
> lan. Pinging localhost works fine.
Let's see the output of /sbin/route -n and ifconfig under
the working and non-working conditions.
What kind of hardware? What kernel? What distribution?
Later,
Kenn
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