[ale] network intermittently going down, HUH ?

[ccthomas at joimail.com (Courtney Thomas)]

Running Debian 2.4.17, I find that from time to time my network needs to 
be restarted else I'm unable to communicate with the other machines on 
the lan.

The command being used is..........
	networking restart

Also, afterwards, I often must also implement the following commands to 
achieve functionality:

ifconfig tunl0 down
ifconfig tunl0 arp up
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 up
route add default gw 'linuxbox' 	;linuxbox being the lan router

On the other hand, a Freebsd box I also run, often runs without 
interruption for months.

What's wrong and how do I cure it, please ?

Thank you.

-- 
Courtney
s/v Mutiny
lying Oriental, NC

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