Is the "hub" a switch or a hub? I have an OLD Asante switch but it only has 32k of ram. Once in a while the memory gets borked up, all the lights start flashing. I have to power cycle it to make my network function again. Just a thought. Sam. Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > > Mandrake9.1 on a dell optiplex gx150. > > > > Network worked fine yesterday, today I'm getting dhcp requests timed out. > > > > I jump though the hoops, set stuff manually using the last know > settings - nothing works... > > > > then I unplug the cable, and plug in a new cable and run it to a > different port on my hub - I do a /etc/init.d/network stop and then a > /etc/ > inint.d/network start - everything comes up just fine! > > > > So I go back to the old cable and hub port - do the stop / start and > everything is STILL fine... > > > > what gives? Does the act of unplugging and plugging in a cable to the > NIC reset something? > > > > I hate not knowing how a problem was solved!!! > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list