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Network Connection Dropping....
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Portland, OR, USA
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I've been beating my head against this for a little more than a day now. I'm using an ethernet LAN, MacOS X 10.2.6, Powermac DP450 which until recently has been running stupendously. Then (just when I decide I am gonna purchase a laptop soon) she decides to throw a temper tantrum. Periodically (and I can't identify any sort of trigger event) the network connection disintigrates. I will get an error message saying something to the extent that a network address wasn't found - This is when I am using Named or IP-based network locations. Once in a blue moon I can resume network activity after renewing my DHCP lease, but it usually doesn't fix it. I can't locate any network location inside or outside the LAN by IP or by name. The only resolution I've found is to restart the whole computer, logging out won't help, and it happens universally to every user. I really hate to reinstall for the first time in 3 years, I thought those days were over, but I can't seem to find any other resolution.
Any thoughs guys? Thanks in advance if you can come up with anything....
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Portland, OR, USA
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So I finally figured out what is causing my problem. I'll post it here in case anyone ever has a similar problem. It turns out that something is bunged up with the lookup daemon, probably memory space getting corrupted or some schnizzle in the izzle.
Anyhoo, the way I solved this was by sending lookupd a SIGHUP from the command line. I use 'sudo ps -x' to find the process ID number for lookupd and then 'sudo kill -1 ###' using the PID in place of ### to send an hangup signal, causing lookupd to reset and my network connection to work again.
Now if I can only figure out how to replace just the afflicted file(s) and nothing more I won't have to reinstall or do this thing every 5 minutes for the rest of my life.....
cheers!
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Boston, MA
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Just a thought, might be worth repairing permissions if you havn't already, sounds like it's having problems accessing a file and maybe the privlidges are damaged on it.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Portland, OR, USA
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It was a good theory, so I tried it. It doesn't appear to have fixed the problem though. Thanks for the suggestion anyhow....
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