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bruno321

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Registered: 2010-03-05

Posts: 89

Suddenly intermittent internet connection [SOLVED]

I have been using the same internet configuration for a long time, but it suddenly started working terribly. It is awfully intermittent. I don't really know how to troubleshoot this since I haven't changed anything.

I don't use netcfg; my config is:

interface=eth0
address=192.168.1.4
netmask=255.255.255.0
broadcast=192.168.1.255
gateway=192.168.1.1

The output of ifconfig is:

$ ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500  metric 1
        inet 192.168.1.4  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::21a:4dff:fe55:aae3  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:1a:4d:55:aa:e3  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 160935  bytes 52038065 (49.6 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 2  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 204185  bytes 32214182 (30.7 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
        device interrupt 44  base 0x2000  

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 16436  metric 1
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 3208  bytes 475706 (464.5 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 3208  bytes 475706 (464.5 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

There are other computers in the network which have no internet problems whatsoever, so this is not an ISP problem.

Thanks

Last edited by bruno321 (2012-06-06 21:52:57)

scar

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 442

Re: Suddenly intermittent internet connection [SOLVED]

What kind of network controller do you have? And what driver does the kernel use?

( Try # lspci -k )

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bruno321

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Registered: 2010-03-05

Posts: 89

Re: Suddenly intermittent internet connection [SOLVED]

@scar: thanks for your help, however, I solved this merely by changing my network's static IP address.

I really don't understand how come that was the problem, since I have been using the same one for years, and there is no new computer in the network... Whatever.