Basic Advice Needed to Restore network connectivity

Hello. I have lost linux internet connectivity. I am not able to ping
anything from Fedora 3 when I type ifconfig, I don't get any errors
(eth0 is found with no errors) but when I type dhclient I get:

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776

as part of the message.

physically everything is connected and I have two other windows pc's
working on the network and the router is assigning ip's just fine.

everything was working great for 3 years with this computer. the
computer runs samba as a back-end server. I was not working with the
computer at all when it stopped working.

please help/advise, any help greatly appreciated. in windows i would
just release/renew the ip address, should i restart the linux box -- i
would hate to do that?

Tim

Oh, and I need to remark that this problem is intermittent. A PC
(windows 2000) on my network hung and when I rebooted, the linux box
accessed the internet just fine for about 5 minutes.

Regards,

Tim

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> Oh, and I need to remark that this problem is intermittent. A PC
> (windows 2000) on my network hung and when I rebooted, the linux box
> accessed the internet just fine for about 5 minutes.

IP collision ?

> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776

"sit stands for 'simple internet transition' and is bassically a device
capable of encapsulating ipv6 in ipv4 datagrams."

Are you on an ipv6 network ?


Could you give us more information :

ifconfig -a
netstat -rn

Do you have (and what is) a dhcp server (on witch system) ?

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Regards