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<b>Solved - For the most part.</b><br>
<br>
(This information provided for the possible benefit of others. And
continuing advice from the LUG.)<br>
<br>
The culprit: Windows (of course).<br>
<br>
A last XP update came in overnight on April 9 and somehow my direct
internet access configuration through the router went missing.<br>
This caused Windows to bring up a DSL / Broadband dialer dialog as a
fallback. <br>
(I noted activation of the DSL / Broadband dialer dialog at the time,
but did not think that it was significant.)<br>
<br>
Now:<br>
Linux box: ifconfig: IP address: 192.168.0.101<br>
Windows box: ipconfig: IP address: 192.168.0.115<br>
pings from one to the other work as expected<br>
ping 8.8.8.8 works on both boxes<br>
<br>
Rewind. <br>
<br>
Before either the Linux box or the Windows box were booted and internet
sessions were established, the DLink router had an active PPPoE session
with my ISP.<br>
And after the Linux box was booted and I started browsing, and was
doing so through the session established by the router.<br>
(Things were as they should be.)<br>
<br>
The Windoze box was booting at the time and, eventually, brought up the
DSL / Broadband dialer dialog. (Something it did not do the day before.)<br>
The Windoze the DSL / Broadband dialer dialog established a session
while I was in an internet session on my Linux box. <br>
And, somehow, the
internet session on my Linux box was trashed.<br>
<br>
By request my ISP allows for two internet sessions and after the
Windoze boot I had two sessions, a PPPoE session established by the
DLink router and one by the DSL / Broadband dialer dialog. There was no
room for a third session from the Linux box.<br>
<br>
The behaviour of mixing two boxes and one router was very confusing
until the support people at my ISP reminded me that I was allowed two
sessions. <br>
<br>
After setting up a DSL / Broadband dialer option on the Linux box I was
able to establish an internet session through the router, but only if
the Windows box was offline.<br>
But when there was a DSL / Broadband dialer session on the Windows box,
the Linux box was blocked. <br>
I presume that the Windows box would be similarly blocked if the
reverse was the case. (Unconfirmed.)<br>
<br>
All this after reconfiguring / reflashing the DLink router and checking
that the DSL modem was in the bridged mode.<br>
And reconfiguring the internet connection configurations in both the
Windows and Linux boxes.<br>
<br>
Regards and Thanks<br>
JohnJ<br>
<br>
Following solicited assistance from unsolicited I found:<br>
<a
href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/134121/how-to-restore-recreate-etc-resolv-conf-files">http://askubuntu.com/questions/134121/how-to-restore-recreate-etc-resolv-conf-files</a><br>
This after seeing the caution contained within resolv.conf I rebuilt
the same, using the information above.<br>
(Again, This information provided for the possible benefit of others.)<br>
<br>
On 2014-04-09 19:15, unsolicited wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:5345D483.2060508@swiz.ca" type="cite">Every so
often I find resolv.conf gets trashed. <br>
</blockquote>
<br>
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