[Sussex] ethernet goes down

[Jon Fautley]

Ronan Chilvers wrote:
> Hi Desmond
> 
> On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:42:25 +0100
> Desmond Armstrong <desmond.armstrong at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> My fundamental problem is that the net applet is not indicating 
>> correctly, so now I wonder if this may have something to do with it.
> 
> Next time it goes down, before you reconnect, can you open a command
> prompt and do
> 
> ifconfig -a
> 
> and post the output? This will show the current state of the interface
> and will narrow down where the problem might lie a little.

'ethtool eth0' would be good too.

Jon