[gentoo-user] Re: Connection to linux server dying on both connected devices [RESOLVED]

[gentoo-user] Re: Connection to linux server dying on both connected devices [RESOLVED]

[Mark Shields]

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On 1/27/06, Mark Shields <laebshade@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello list.  I've been reading this mailing list for a while now and have
> taken great pleasure in reading some of these e-mails.  But now the time has
> come for me to present a problem I hope you all can help me with.  I
> recently reinstalled Gentoo (stage3) after my hard drive crashed in my
> server (it sounded like the hard drive arm was waltzing across the
> platters).  I followed the home router guide,
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml, as I've done before,
> and as before I emerged dhcp instead of using dnsmasq as my dhcp server.
> Ever since I reinstalled I've had a problem where I've had to disable/enable
> my NIC in windows and powercycle my MTA (Motorola vt1004, Vonage) to get a
> connection; if I attempt to traceroute from my Windows XP box it gives the
> error "request timed out".  I thought it was something wrong with the DHCP
> server so I set static IPs on both the MTA and Windows box, but I woke up
> this morning and it is still doing it. Again, I had to disable/enable my NIC
> in windows and powercycle my MTA to get the connection working on both the
> windows box and the MTA.  No cables had to be unplugged/replugged and
> nothing else reset.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> --
> - Mark Shields


I fixed the problem myself, bad switch.  Sorry to bother the list with a
non-Gentoo issue.

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- Mark Shields

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