Hi!
Every few minutes, my network disconnects. If I unplug the cable and plug it back again, data start flowing again… but after a few minutes, it’s back to stopped.
I read there is a default timeout somewhere, but couldn’t find it.
I’m running openSUSE 10.3.
What’s this “Internet connection timeout”? Where do you find it? I’d like to test if that’s the problem…
You’ll find Idle Time-Out in your internet connection parameters (i.e. DSL, ISDN or Modem) in Yast. Note that this setting is useless when your behind a router. Because it only times out when there’s no network traffic, I don’t think that Idle Time-Out causes your problem.
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I have now tested the connection at two different places, and the problem keeps happening – after a few minutes, the eth0 connection drops off. If I unplug it, and plug it back again, it goes back to life.
I am using the r8169 module – might that be the cause?
I changed over to r8168 (provided by Realtek) and even blacklisted r8169, but it made no difference…
im having exactly the same problem using dial-up Broadband
In the dial-up case it makes sense to have a look at the “Idle Time-Out” setting, see post 3 in this thread. The default setting is a disconnect after 300 seconds of no traffic. Set “Idle Time-Out” to 0 if you want to stay connected all the time.
And thats exactly what i did. With no success.
Following a suggestion by Swerdna (thanks, again, to him!) I tried Realtek’s r8169 driver instead of r8168 – and it worked! I downloaded it from Realtek’s site, and installed it according to the “readme” included instructions.
What I do wonder now is… why isn’t that driver included in OpenSUSE, instead of the current buggy one?!
Im already using r8169 