I'm having a problem with my current network setup.
I'm running RedHat 2.1 on a P/60 with a NE/2000 card through
10 BaseT Ethernet, which is connected through a gateway to
the Internet. I find RedHat great and an improvement over
Slackware, but for some reason, this machine seems to stop
accepting TCP/IP connections after a while. So after about 24
hours, if noone connects, it won't accept any pings, telnets, ftps,
https, etc.
So to alleviate this, I tried pinging every 30 minutes. This seems
to have worked, since I can connect to it now, but my ping
returns 0 packets most of the time (I am running it on a crontab.)
Similarly, I have an identical computer running Slackware 2.0 and
it runs perfectly. When I ping the RedHat computer, 90% of the
pings don't return any packets.
I think part of my problem is that I didn't use the right kernel
to make the RedHat boot disks and so I had to use the administration
tool to set up my networking instead of using the RedHat install.
My problem is: I don't want to reinstall RedHat, but I don't like
having this network downtime. Can anyone help me out?
(BTW, I've tried diagnosing the problem with ifconfig, netstat, arp,
etc. and everything looks ok.)
Thanks!
louie