[gutsy] wired static IP doe not hold

[bapoumba]

This is a laptop.
Home wired network with DHCP : no problem.
Work wired network (same card) with static IPs get disconnected from network after one to 5 minutes.
Restarting /etc/init.d/networking allows to have network access for 1-5 mins.

Three files attached, config at work, network down and network up.

Not sure where to start looking, this may be a duplicate of some avahi bugs, but I'm not internet savvy. Please let me know which infos to provide (network and cables have been checked by techs and are ok. Thanks :)

[Erik Andrén (erik-andren)]

Anything interesting in the kernel log? (Check with dmesg)

[bapoumba (bapoumba)]

[ 2298.516000] Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:16:d4:f5:1c:e8:08:00 SRC=169.254.45.38 DST=169.254.255.255 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=332 PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58

I have this, repeated about 20 times, at the end of dmesg after the network goes down. Restarting networking does not bring up new messages. Does this help ?
Thanks Erik.

[bapoumba (bapoumba)]

Okay, after getting help from a friend, I removed network-manager and network-manager-gnome. Same bug symptoms.

Removing remaining network-manager dependencies: dhcdbd, libnl1-pre6, libnm-util0 solved the problem.

So this is clearly not an avahi bug. Could someone reassign this bug, and may be point me towards relevant original bug report, if any? Many thanks :)

[bapoumba (bapoumba)]

Can someone please mark it as a duplicate of bug #38140 ? Thanks.