Okay, so contrary to indication, your internet connection is still up when this happens.
Exactly...
What happens if you do a "ping -n <known addr>" ? If that also doesn't work, try "traceroute -n <known addr>". If ICMPs for some reason are being dropped during one of these outages, the "ping -n" wont work either, but the "traceroute -n" might just show how far they do get.
OK, I think you are on to something here. I still want to test some more to be 100% sure though. I had 2 "outages" last night where I was at the computer (was busy with other things so didn't have a lot of time to test). During the outage, Skype was, as usual, connected, and a call was in progress. There was no interruption in the VoIP service, but web browsing did not work. I tried ping -n and got the same results as a regular ping (both to a URL and an IP)... no replies back. traceroute -n did produce results... a lot of lines with *'s and various IPs. I need to test this some more with known URL/IP combinations that reply normally and then hit them again during an outage to see the difference. I hope to be able to do this tonight. Is it possible that the dropped ICMPs could be a result of some misconfig on my end? I know little about ICMPs (I'm reading up on it though). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org