My dsl connection in suse 11.1 has problems. Every five or ten minutes the connections stops for a minute or two and then resumes traffic again. I have used Suse since 8.2 and never had this problem before. My dsl connection has always been set up with all the default values at installation. Can somebody help me please! Thanks!
Every five or ten minutes the connections stops for a minute or two and then resumes traffic again.
Can you tell us a bit more about problem? Network hardware? Driver? When connection is working vs dropped, what is output of
rcnetwork status
ifconfig
netstat -r
Does it differ?
This could be a problem between your ISP and router. Maybe one of the network gurus may be able to characterize this problem a little more and offer you some ideas/solutions.
It’s a standard home non-wireless DSL connection. I used to run Suse 10.1 with the same hardware on this computer and never had this problem. Sorry I’m not so technical.
ifconfig
dsl0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:218.175.181.7 P-t-P:218.175.168.254 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:11186 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11071 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:10895121 (10.3 Mb) TX bytes:2609190 (2.4 Mb)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:69:5F:BD
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:56624 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:59891 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:14 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:51819796 (49.4 Mb) TX bytes:12907900 (12.3 Mb)
Interrupt:23
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:470 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:470 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:44360 (43.3 Kb) TX bytes:44360 (43.3 Kb)
rcnetwork status
Checking optional network interfaces:
dsl0 name: DSL Connection running
eth0 device: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
eth0 DHCP4 client (dhcpcd) is running
eth0 . . . but is still waiting for data waiting
Checking mandatory network interfaces:
lo
lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
secondary lo IP address: 127.0.0.2/8 running
Checking service network . . . . . . . . . . . running
netstat -r
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
218-175-168-254 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 dsl0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 dsl0
thanks a lot!
I wanted you to run those commands again when interface down as well. How long does the connection stay down for? Does it reconnect automatically, or do you have to do it manually via network manager for example?
Maybe
tail /var/log/messages
will reveal something useful next time it occurs.
The connection stays down for a minute or two, but does not disconnect. Just no data moves. Thanks for helping. Here is the output if I disconnect Kinternet.
netstat
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
rcnetwork
Checking optional network interfaces:
eth0 device: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
eth0 DHCP4 client (dhcpcd) is running
eth0 . . . but is still waiting for data waiting
dsl0 name: DSL Connection unused
Checking mandatory network interfaces:
lo
lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
secondary lo IP address: 127.0.0.2/8 running
Checking service network . . . . . . . . . . . running
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:69:5F:BD
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3558 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:1 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3536004 (3.3 Mb) TX bytes:746182 (728.6 Kb)
Interrupt:23
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2996 (2.9 Kb) TX bytes:2996 (2.9 Kb)
Thanks a lot!