On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 15:51, Eric Tanguy wrote: > I have an adsl connection. When i let my connection inactive for few > hours, i can't access internet. I tried to switch it off and on after > using system-control-network in the system gnome menu. But it does > nothing. The only solution is to reboot. Anyone know why and how i can > solve it ? > Thanxes. > Eric > Switching the modem on and off does nothing except reconnect/resync with the telco. It has no effect on restarting the network. My experience with adsl was that the provider timed out the IP lease and I had to get a new one frequently (at least every 8 hours). The simplest way I found for that was to use "service network restart" and it just reconnected and worked. In fact I got so that I just ran that command from cron so I did not have to worry about it after that.
