Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > We have two new hosted machines, each of which has suddenly and > unexpectedly lost connectivity. In each case connecting a console and > typing "ifup eth0" restored connectivity. Nothing at all appeared in > /var/log/messages between the last good log, and the insertion of the > USB keyboard for recovery. Hmm. # ifdown eth1 Device eth1 has MAC address 00:30:48:70:3A:07, instead of configured address 00:30:48:85:B6:E0. Ignoring. What if there were another 00:30:48:85:B6:E0 on the network? And it rebooted? Would that cause this problem? -- ---- Visit http://www.obviously.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html