On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:09 , Peter Eddy sent: >McKeever Chris wrote: >> have this strange intermittent issue, on two separate occasions, on the same box spanning 2 entire scratch rebuilds of this machine, I can not >> ping a certain subnet, other than the router. >> >> if I restart the network service on the computer having this problem, it all comes back online. I can however during the whole time reach the >> subnet and computers on it without a problem from any other machine. > >Have you tried swapping the NIC? When they go bad they can do odd things >like that. I'd especially suspect something like this if the machine's >network configuration is vanilla. Just a thought. > the Nic is integrated, which doesnt matter for i can put another one in, but no I haven't. I was thinking about this as well, but wanted to get some feedback on it. it is just strange that it looses the same subnet..but yeah, it could be a flakey card. On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:11 , Luis Roberto sent: >do you route this by the same ethX? > >ej. route 192.168.0.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 >could be the NETMASK 255.255 >the netmask allou you to seek in 2 difernts subnets > # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default router-1201.pru 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 When/if this happens again, is there anything that I should run/check to maybe pinpoint what is going on? Thanks ------------------------------------------- Chris McKeever If you want to reply directly to me, please use cgmckeever--at--prupref---dot---com http://www.prupref.com ---- Prudential Preferred Properties www.prupref.com