Comment Is it really the router? (Score 1) 936
I've been using an SMC reouter for the past few years, alternately with Comcast & with Verizon DSL. Internally, we have a linux laptop (Debian Etch 2.6.20) and two mac G5s. The macs & laptop take turns losing network- interestingly often not at the same time.
I hardly ever have to reboot the router. I do have to restart the Comcast cable modem about once a month (they actually recommend this) and I occasionally have to restart networking on one or more of the user boxes. Looking at my resolv.conf I found that Comcast changes nameservers on occasion even when the external IP stays the same. Weirdly, the SMC picks up the new info, but doesn't pass it on to the boxes unless I do a dhcp reset.
The other weird thing that I've seen with Comcast is that it occasionally converts some of the IP name resolutions for sites I use most often to IN-ADDR.ARPA addresses. It does this often enough with some of my most-used sites that I manually added them into my
Since doing that, I find that I "lose" network less often. I suspect that many of the incidents I had experienced as network failures were actually name resolution failures.
