Random Network Droping, advice needed

[Jim Radford]

On Tuesday 16 Mar 2004 7:35 pm, Jim Radford wrote:
> Problem 2:
>
> This is with a Laptop, my work machine - also running Fedora. This machine
> also loses it's network - but this is happening every half hour, give or
> take a minute. The extra thing with this is, the whole machine locks up for
> the few mins that it's happening. Again, nothing appears in the logs - the
> CPU doesn't sky rocket or anything that I'd expect.

Well, I solved this problem today. I turns out one of the other machines on my 
work network had decided to start DHCP'ing for it's IP after a recent 
power-cut the office suffered. It was stealing my IP :(

The offending machine has been delt with ;)

-- 
Jim Radford
   "If at first you don't succeed - change the DC"