[mdlug] Mint 6, SSH and disconnects

[Brandon Fotiu]

The Mint box is connected to a Linksys WRT54GS running DD-WRT.  The router
is running a DHCP server but the Mint box has static IP.  I set up port
forwarding on there for the SSH connection.

They don't say they give static IPs but mine hasn't changed in months so I
haven't set up any kind of dynamic IP tracking or anything like that.  I
will try "dmesg | tail" and see next time it goes offline but fortunately it
didn't die all day today.

Brandon

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Raymond McLaughlin
<driveray at ameritech.net>wrote:

> Jeff Hanson wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Brandon <bfotiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> My ISP is WideOpenWest and I have cable internet access they have been
> >> fairly lenient in the past but this is my first attempt to use SSH.  I
> >> have Firestarter installed so I can look for any rules regarding port
> >> timeouts.  If it's the ISP resetting the connection shouldn't I just be
> >> able to reconnect and be on my way again?  Why would network manager go
> >> into offline mode?
> >>
> >
> > It could be a bug with the network chip driver.  The next time NM goes
> > offline, check the kernel messages to see if there was an event
> > relating to your network device (eth0, etc.).  In a terminal run:
> > dmesg | tail
>
> Also, is your Mint Linux box connected directly to your cable modem, or
> through some sort of router? If it's a direct connection, is the network
> interface (i.e. eth0) itself dropping? If it is, does WOW give you the
> same IP address each time you reconnect?
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