From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suresh Jayaraman Subject: Re: Lose shared network resource Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:33:33 +0530 Message-ID: <4D351F25.7000708@suse.de> References: <395199.61799.qm@web29510.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Francesco Alfano Return-path: In-Reply-To: <395199.61799.qm-TMQpk2DxdNTyX4RqAA4FmIglqE1Y4D90QQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: (good to Cc linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org though it might not have anything to do with cifs in this case) On 01/13/2011 09:06 PM, Francesco Alfano wrote: > Hello, > I have a problem with the (exported) sharing of network resources. > Initially i've used a sever with RedHat 7.3 kernel 2.4 now i've installed > Scientific Linux 5.5 with kernel 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5PAE with Samba version > 3.0.33-3.29.el5_5.1. > > The problem is that I lose the network connection periodically, about 10 > minutes! > Are you using dhcp? If yes, it looks like a problem due to IPaddress not being persistent (possibly a bug in dhcpcd). Are you able to reproduce this problem if you use static IP? Also, see if the problem is persisting if you use dhclient instead of dhcpcd. -- Suresh Jayaraman