Götz Reinicke wrote:
Am 22.08.12 15:01, schrieb Richard Reina:
I have a simple perl script that every few hours pings the handful of machines on my LAN. Lately I've sometimes been getting
ping of 192.168.0.1 succeeded ping of 192.168.0.7 succeeded ping of 192.168.0.5 FAILED
This machine in question has been running Centos faithfully for about six years and no recent changes to it have been made. When I try and ping
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Recently I was faced with a similar problem (cant ping a device from time to time which was not touched for about two years...). My solution: check the lan cabel.
The system I had problems with had been standing in the sun behind a window and the lan cabel was 'melting' and did not fit properly into the adapter.
Good thought! Could someone have moved non-computer hardware, like, say, a desk or chair, or there's been some utility work, and the cable run's impacted occasionally... or stepped on?
mark