Re: Revisted Eth1 problem

[david walcroft <d_j_w46 bigpond net au>]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>   
> > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 19:16 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >     
> > > As far as changes, I suspect that the Windows machine was providing
> > > the DHCP server, and an update turned it off. (Internet connection
> > > sharing, I think.) 
> > >       
> > I would expect the opposite, turning on internet connection sharing
> > tends to also turn the box into a DHCP server.  At least that was my
> > experience in the past.
> >
> >     
> It does, but an update can turn off Internet connection sharing. (I
> was not sure of the name.) You never know what a Windows update will
> do. I have even seen machines running 2 firewall programs because an
> update urned on the Windows firewall, even though they already had
> one running. It messed up printing to a network printer. I have even
> seen DHCP blocked by installing a new firewall.
>
> Mikkel
>   
I now have the problem in which using "service network restart" 
disconnects me from the net.

my /var/log/messages after a reboot

Sep 17 11:52:40 reddwarf NET[1838]: /sbin/dhclient-script : updated 
/etc/resolv.conf
Sep 17 11:52:40 reddwarf dhclient: bound to 121.208.35.242 -- renewal in 
1551 seconds.
Sep 17 11:52:40 reddwarf kernel: eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, 
lpa 0x41E1
Sep 17 11:52:40 reddwarf dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Sep 17 11:52:47 reddwarf dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
Sep 17 11:53:03 reddwarf dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
/var/log/messages                                                          

Thanks  david