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nadir

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## Re: How to restart network

Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:48 am

If you got an entry in interaces and a network manager running, that might be the source of your problem.
Remove the one you prefer to.
(remove means: comment interfaces or run sysv-rc-conf for the existing network-manager)
Replacing allow-hotplug with auto (and vice versa) for eth0 might be worth a test too
fsmithred

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## Re: How to restart network

Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:03 am

Wicd is pretty easy and intuitive. If you use it, comment out the lines for eth0 in the interfaces file. You might not have to do anything with it to get it to work.
I *think* if you change

Code:
  `allow-hotplug eth0`

to

> auto eth0

then '-etc-init.d-networking restart' should work correctly.
From 'man interfaces'

> Lines beginning with the word "auto" are used to identify the physical interfaces to be brought up
> when ifup is run with the -a option. (This option is used by the system boot scripts.) Physical
> interface names should follow the word "auto" on the same line. There can be multiple "auto"
> stanzas. ifup brings the named interfaces up in the order listed.

golinux

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## Re: How to restart network

Fri Jan 18, 2013 7:44 pm

> nadir wrote:Calling the ISP is another option. Run a speedtest somewhere.

It wasn't a speed problem. Phone and internet were winking in and out over several hours then would be fine for days. Tech came this morning and (hopefully) fixed things. The original installers put a splitter/attenuator in-line to reduce the signal which was supposedly too strong at the time. Now the signal was too weak. Removing that piece of hardware upped the signal so 'should' be OK now.
golinux

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## Re: How to restart network

Fri Jan 18, 2013 7:50 pm

As to network settings . . . I have not touched or installed anything to do with networking that I am aware of. I do have the xfce network monitor in the panel and also installed the mate-system-monitor (wanted to avoid the gtk3 interface). But I don't imagine that changed any of the settings. I would need to compare installed files with squeeze and other wheezys to see what's going on. A rainy day project. Or I might just wait till stable to sort things out . . .
nadir

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## Re: How to restart network

Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:02 pm

> golinux wrote:

> > nadir wrote:Calling the ISP is another option. Run a speedtest somewhere.

> It wasn't a speed problem. Phone and internet were winking in and out over several hours then would be fine for days. Tech came this morning and (hopefully) fixed things. The original installers put a splitter/attenuator in-line to reduce the signal which was supposedly too strong at the time. Now the signal was too weak. Removing that piece of hardware upped the signal so 'should' be OK now.

Good.
But you missed the second part of what i said:

> Everything ok? I got such problems, and it usually is a problem only to be solved by the ISP (i can fiddle as much i want, no luck, i call them, boom: problem solved).

So what was the problem, in the end, was what i meant (around the lines of).
I have wasted whole weekends, and in the end simply they have borked it.
Here they set the signal strenghts up and down from remote. While doing so they can tell me what sites i got open, which lids bling on my router and if i am scratching my back. But then no splitter is involved. What exactly they do i don't know, sure. Perhaps nothing and just fooling with me ? Not according to speedtest tests, but i guess they can fake that too.
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