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