Perhaps something wasn't plugged in right, like crooked. I've had weird things happen when the little wires inside of the female rj45 connector bend over and touch the other ones. I've had strange things happen with bent monitor connector pins too, more than once. Just a thought. - Tom On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 12:32, Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > Mandrake9.1 on a dell optiplex gx150. > > > > Network worked fine yesterday, today I'm getting dhcp requests timed out. > > > > I jump though the hoops, set stuff manually using the last know settings - > nothing works... > > > > then I unplug the cable, and plug in a new cable and run it to a different > port on my hub - I do a /etc/init.d/network stop and then a /etc/ > inint.d/network start - everything comes up just fine! > > > > So I go back to the old cable and hub port - do the stop / start and > everything is STILL fine... > > > > what gives? Does the act of unplugging and plugging in a cable to the NIC > reset something? > > > > I hate not knowing how a problem was solved!!! > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Tom Penney <blots at visi.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list