Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 24 18:41:11 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:11:12 -0500
> Richard Shaw wrote:
>
>> All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at some
>> point all connection attempts TO her computer fail, while all
>> networking communications coming FROM her laptop continue to work
>> fine.
>
> That sounds a bit like a DHCP lease being dropped, but I'm not
> sure how to check. I know I've seen behavior like this on virtual
> machines with totally rotten clocks which keep time so badly they
> don't think they have to renew their lease yet even though the
> server has already dropped them :-).

I'll take a look when I get home, but it seems unlikely. I use the
DHCP built into my Netgear FVS318G router and none of the other
computers seem to have this problem.

Richard


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