27 Nov
2006
27 Nov
'06
6:43 p.m.
For a few weeks I've been seeing strange behaviour with dhclient/dhcp and Shaw. Wondering if anyone else has seen this:
Once a week or so, usually on Sun or Mon, my FC5 box firewall/router will lose its connection to Shaw. ifconfing will show eth0 up with an IP address, but no traffic will come in or out. Normally, that's a "Shaw is down" symptom. But if I ifdown eth0; ifup eth0, then instantly everything is ok again. And my IP address stays the same.
It's almost like dhclient isn't keeping Shaw's DHCP server happy and they're cutting me off until I say, "hey, I'm still here" with a ifup kick.
Any ideas?