Found the problem. Someone had set up a Maxtor network storage device on
the same IP addr I was getting through DHCP.
Many thanks to those who responded.
From: Brad Douglas
Sent: Thursday, 21 July 2005 4:32 PM
To: 'fedora-selinux-list(a)redhat.com'
Subject: Network drop out problem
Hi,
This is my first post here - please be gentle 8).
Yesterday I installed FC4 on a HP ML110 proliant server. The plan is
to
use it as out file server, so I've got samba running on it, along with vnc.
The problem I've run into is that the box appears to be running
fine, but
every now and then _all_ the network connections to my >laptop (running
XP)
disappear and can not reconnect for a few seconds: ssh, samba, vnc -
everything. A few seconds later everything is fine again (till the next
time). The weirdest thing is that I don't see any disruption pinging the
box.
I've gone through the samba, message and secure logs and can't
see anything
obviously wrong.
If anyone has an idea what's going on, or even where I could look
to
diagnose the cause I'd be very grateful.
Thanks,
B