On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 edwarner99@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > This morning, my internet DSL connection appeared > dead. I restarted the network and anything else that > would use any part of the network including dhcp. > That didn't help. I checked the logs, found nothing > wrong. I finally rebooted and that fixed the problem. > > Is there something else I should have done instead of > rebooted? > Just want to learn for the next time. The first thing that comes to mind is that your ISP probably requires PPPoE authentication, and that the PPPoE daemon went down. You probably just needed to restart the PPPoE dialer (probably rp-pppoe or some such) -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
