network disabled on startup

[A.J. Bonnema]

Hi,

I have a curious problem with my network connection. I know that my ADSL 
connection is instable. This I am working on separately (an ISP 
problem). However, if I happen to restart Linux while the connection is 
down, after restarting the connection never gets reset, even after 
(service network restart).

If I ping a local machine (the modem: 10.0.0.138) I get host 
unreachable. I get this for every machine.
service network restart, returns OK, but does not establish a connection.

The only solution is to keep restarting until the machine happens to get 
eth0 from startup.

 From that time on till the next restart I have no network problems.

I am running FC5 on x86_64.

Does anyone have a clue how to investigate this one?

Guus.

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A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands,
user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org)