linux box troubles

[Brian Cluff]

Check to see if you are running the DEC Tulip drivers, if thats the case
there are known problems with them and upgrading to the 2.4 kernel seems to
help.  Also if thats your problem, you don't have to reboot your machine,
just bringing the network up and down will reset them and get them working
again. (on redhat/mandrake and some others "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network
restart")

On a firewall at work I put a bash scirpt that would ping sevral addresses
and if they were ALL down it would reset the network, you could try making a
similar program, sorry I can't supply it for you, I stopped needing it since
I upgraded it, and it have since gotten lost in the wood work (I can't
remember what I called it :).

Brian Cluff
----- Original Message -----

> forwarding packets to or from the windows box.  I can log into the linux
> box itself and it will let me run programs.  If the program is network
> related such as ping, it won't work.  It won't let me ping the windows
> box or anything on the internet.  This also applies to ftp, http,
> whatever.