I have a Mini-ITX box (500Mhz VIA, 2 VIA 100Mbps LAN ports) connected to the network and connected to an X-Modem CE.
Occasionally the internet dies. Smoothwall still says it's connected on the web interface. Delving into 'advanced' yields something similar to this:
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:63
A:93:FE
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:8065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8542 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4247364 (4.0 Mb) TX bytes:2934805 (2.7 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800
usually you'd see a second line with:
inet addr:195.x.x.x Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
But that seems to vanish. Rebooting the box doesn't usually help, I have to turn the modem off and on again, and then reboot the box.
Would this lead you to the conclusion that the modem is at fault here? Any ideas what might be the problem?
I suppose I could just buy one of the new X-Modem M3's and see if that helped... but it could be a waste of money if that's not the issue.
Occasionally the internet dies. Smoothwall still says it's connected on the web interface. Delving into 'advanced' yields something similar to this:
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:63

UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:8065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8542 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4247364 (4.0 Mb) TX bytes:2934805 (2.7 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800
usually you'd see a second line with:
inet addr:195.x.x.x Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
But that seems to vanish. Rebooting the box doesn't usually help, I have to turn the modem off and on again, and then reboot the box.
Would this lead you to the conclusion that the modem is at fault here? Any ideas what might be the problem?
I suppose I could just buy one of the new X-Modem M3's and see if that helped... but it could be a waste of money if that's not the issue.