Bert thanks for your reply It seems routing daemons are not creating problem. with: "ifconfig eth1 up " I find that I am able to make interface up again, but it disappears after a while if I do not do anything on this machine for a while and comes back again with "ifconfig eth1 up " I have another similar kind of problem. I will describe it: (R1)eth0-------eth1(R2) If for certain time I do not work on the machine then I am not able to ping the remote interface .eg eth0 from R2 and eth1 from R1.While local interfaces are pingable and ifconfig/ip addr shows that that interfaces are up on both sides. Initailly when I rebooted both machines these two boxes were mutually pingable.ip route also recognizes the availability of the networks. In this case also I am not running Any routing daemon. Any help on this will be very appreciable. Thanks in advance, Nitin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
