On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/24/2010 02:41 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Tom Horsley<horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:11:12 -0500 >>> Richard Shaw wrote: >>> >>>> All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at some >>>> point all connection attempts TO her computer fail, while all >>>> networking communications coming FROM her laptop continue to work >>>> fine. >>> >>> That sounds a bit like a DHCP lease being dropped, but I'm not >>> sure how to check. I know I've seen behavior like this on virtual >>> machines with totally rotten clocks which keep time so badly they >>> don't think they have to renew their lease yet even though the >>> server has already dropped them :-). >> >> I'll take a look when I get home, but it seems unlikely. I use the >> DHCP built into my Netgear FVS318G router and none of the other >> computers seem to have this problem. >> >> Richard > > Check the date and time on the machine. It's possible that you have a > bad CMOS battery and it's losing/resetting time at random. Hmm.. just checked it remotely: # date Thu Jun 24 15:50:52 CDT 2010 Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines