I am having (seemingly) random trouble with my wired network ever since I installed Lucid. I have no problem getting an ip address from dhcp. However, randomly the computer will boot and although I have an ip address I do not receive any responses for pings on the network nor can I browse the web. If I sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart a few times (or reboot) it will start working. However, restarting the networking services (as mentioned above) again will cause me to no longer receive responses for pings or browse the web.
Furthermore, I have never been able to successfully ping if I manually set an ip address.
I have un-installed network manager and I am using /etc/network/interfaces to configure the network.
Using Lucid Lynx 64bit on a Dell Precision. I have pasted below the output of a few helpful commands. When I switch between static ip and dhcp I am commenting/uncommenting the lines shown in /etc/network/interfaces.
sudo lshw -c network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:23:ae:99:4a:85
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.102 duplex=full firmware=5754-v3.24 ip=10.200.147.153 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:78 memory:f7cf0000-f7cfffff
cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet static
#address 10.200.147.56
#netmask 255.255.255.0
#broadcast 10.200.147.255
#gateway 10.200.147.1
iface eth0 inet dhcp
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