Dear all, I've installed SuSE 7.3 on my Athlon system. I experience the following problem: occasionally the (ethernet) network connection drops out (and stays out for at least a day, I never tried to wait longer). With this I mean that even ping to the router (using the IP number) does not work anymore. Network connection reappears after rebooting, but also when I simply execute the following commands (as root): ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth0 172.16.20.2 broadcast 172.16.255.255 netmask 255.255.0.0 rcroute start I have a RealTek 8139 network card. Suse 7.3 installed the 8139too driver, but I've replaced it with D. Becker's latest rtl8139 driver. Unfortunately, that didn't change the behaviour of my system at all. I can now use mii-diag, but that claims everything is fine with the card (even when after dropping the connection). Just in case you think it's cabling (but I can't see how the ifconfig thing would do anything about that). The system is connected with a cable to a minihub, which also has another (Sun) system. From there it goes to the main hub. While my Linux system's connection is down, the Sun still works happily on. One system manager claims it has something to do with the network server configuration (router, NIS, DNS, all that), but I have a hard time believing that because of the ifconfig 'remedy'. Any clues? Thanks a lot Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans <at> ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom