[Linux] what could be killing my linux router?

[Terry Richards]

Terry Richards wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> -----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?
>>
>>
>> every few days i come home to find there is no connection up.
>> nothing in messages.
>> what on earth could it be?
>>
>>  
>>
>
> 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 ???
>

i can't even get a handle on the _exact_ time it goes down, usually when 
i am out of the house. but i notice my torrents are stopped dead

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