[Linux] what could be killing my linux router?

[Terry Richards]

Aaron Wolfe wrote:

>That's pretty vague...  what kind of connection are you using? where is
>the failure (can you ping the router's inside interface?  Its outside
>interface?  Its gateway?)  What are you doing that corrects the problem?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: linux-admin@flux.org [mailto:linux-admin@flux.org] On Behalf Of
>Terry Richards
>Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:46 PM
>To: linux@flux.org
>Subject: [Linux] what could be killing my linux router?
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>every few days i come home to find there is no connection up.
>nothing in messages.
>what on earth could it be?
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well, that is where ya got me. it is a gentoo solution on an old P200. 
no, i can not ping nothing, not from the intra-net nor can i ping the 
internet from the router. the only fix i found so far is the reboot. i 
am used to getting 30 or more days uptime on this machine and been 
keeping it updated week to week. all i can say is that it goes offline 
every couple days now and for no reason i can think up. next time it 
goes down i will ping from the router to my laptop just to see if it 
does answer back but it certainly does not ping from my laptop to the 
router. i haven't tried to ping the gateway to the outside from the 
router yet but since the other machines don't connect. . . give it a few 
days and i'll ping around when it does. but lets' say it don't ping 
anything, nothing at all in messages and nothing too unusual in the 
apache logs, just the usual scanner with his morfeus F S and this from 
china 210.75.25.28 - - [05/Jun/2007:04:58:55 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0 " 
200 776 "-" "-"

the hardware seems fine as it only takes a reboot, but i also have to 
plug in the keyboard from another machine which makes it a pia. i'd like 
to take a three day holiday and feel at least a little secure that it 
won't be down the entire time i am gone. i been getting lots of one ring 
phone calls too. just one ring and . . . nothing ???

:-)^2