Bug 172919 - Randomly drops internet connection
Summary: Randomly drops internet connection
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 4
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Christopher Aillon
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-11 09:55 UTC by James Bridge
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-01-20 16:17:59 UTC
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Description James Bridge 2005-11-11 09:55:14 UTC
Description of problem: I have  a single home computer funning Fedora core 4,
connected to the internet by a router. Since upgrading to kernel 1532 and then
1637 the internet connection is unreliable. Sometimes it drops out in use, often
it doesn't start up on booting. Usually I can ping my provider by IP address, so
the hardware is working; occasionally I get "network unreachable". If I go to
System settings/Network and delete the eth0 connection and then make a new one,
it all works again.

The upgrades (by yum) have also changed other components, so I can't say which
is at fault.


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How reproducible: random


Steps to Reproduce: wait an hour or so...

Comment 1 James Bridge 2005-11-12 19:47:54 UTC
Further experiments...
1. Not necessary to make a new eth0 device, just edit the old one. Go to
"hardware device" and click on "probe". Save and close.
2. The problem seems to be in NetworkManager 0.5. I have gone back to the 0.4
version which came with FC4 and behaviour is now as expected.

Comment 2 Christian Iseli 2007-01-20 00:31:16 UTC
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd.

Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and
either update the target product or close it ?

Thanks.

Comment 3 James Bridge 2007-01-20 16:17:59 UTC
I'd forgotten all about this... sorry! No probs with either FC5 or 6


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