[G4] Sudden loss of internet access - Solved

[Mel Krewall]

It's strange that a cable would just die on it's own, but I've had that 
happen to me twice over the years. I never think it's the cable, 
especially when it was "just working the day before".
Mel

"The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a 
flagstick on top."
~ Pete Dye

On Feb 15, 2005, at 8:34 AM, David Carroll wrote:

> I should have figured this out earlier, but I managed to solve the 
> problem
> myself this morning. When I came in this morning, I still could not 
> get a
> connection. After doing the procedure below still no connection. 
> So.....I
> decided on a whim to swap ethernet cables with a wind up I 
> have..voila! That
> was it..a bad ethernet cable that obviously just "went" yesterday.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
>
>
>> This is simple but it's worked for me, but I never knew what caused me
>> to lose the internet originally. Unplug the ethernet, shutdown, then
>> re-boot. Shutdown again, re-connect internet, and reboot. Mine was
>> restored. Hopefully, yours will too. This is similar to renewing the
>> DHCP.
>> Ron/TN
>>
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