[Wolves] sudo apt-get update

[Steve Wilson]

Sorry to be so prolific, but it appears there is a pattern to this behaviour. When I disconnect and then reconnect to the router, there is a short honeymoon period followed by a breakdown. Here's what happened last time (192.168.2.1 is the router's address) ...

user at ubuntu:/etc$ ping 192.168.2.1
PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.2.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.2.2 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.2.2 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.2.2 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.2.2 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.2.2 icmp_seq=8 Destination Host Unreachable
^C
--- 192.168.2.1 ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 0 received, +6 errors, 100% packet loss, time 8007ms
, pipe 3

(Here, I disconnected and reconnected)

user at ubuntu:/etc$ ping -c 1 192.168.2.1
PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=3165 ms

--- 192.168.2.1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 3165.517/3165.517/3165.517/0.000 ms
user at ubuntu:/etc$ ping -c 1 192.168.2.1
PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=10.6 ms

--- 192.168.2.1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 10.660/10.660/10.660/0.000 ms

user at ubuntu:/etc$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://archive.canonical.com intrepid Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.canonical.com intrepid/partner Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release.gpg
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Translation-en_GB
Hit http://archive.canonical.com intrepid Release
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release.gpg
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/restricted Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/universe Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release.gpg
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/restricted Translation-en_GB
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/universe Translation-en_GB
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release
Ign http://archive.canonical.com intrepid/partner Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release          
Ign http://archive.canonical.com intrepid/partner Sources           
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages             
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Sources
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Sources
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Sources
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.canonical.com intrepid/partner Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Packages
Get: 1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages [4542kB]
Hit http://archive.canonical.com intrepid/partner Sources
26% [1 Packages 1187280/4542kB 26%]^C            

(Here it froze, so I hit Ctrl+C, and then ...)
                              
user at ubuntu:/etc$ ping -c 1 192.168.2.1
PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.2.1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

user at ubuntu:/etc$ ping -c 1 192.168.2.1
PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.2.1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

user at ubuntu:/etc$ 

I think the signal is strong enough - it averages 30-40%. And anyway the XP box doesn't appear to suffer the same problem and the 2 machines are right beside each other.

Can anyone help please??

-Steve W