[coLinux-users] Network dies after a while

[Leeuw v. d. T. <tim...@nl...>]

Hi,

I got a basic coLinux/gentoo installation working without much trouble, =
but networking is giving me headaches.

I'm using WindowsXP Pro SP1 with all latest updates, and coLinux 0.6.1 =
with gentoo deluxe 2g. I also have a personal firewall installed: sygate =
3.5 (corporate policy to have it running).

The only networking-option that seems to work for me at all, is using =
the TAP driver and a proxy-server (I installed FreeProxy 3.72, which =
seems to dislike the wget ftp client -- but that's another issue).

The Briding option in XP doesn't work for me, I have no clue why, but it =
doesn't give me an IP address on the bridged driver and all my =
networking dies.

Internet Connection Sharing? I'd rather not try, but I doubt it will =
make any difference compared to the problems I currently have.

coLinux bridged networking doesn't work for me either, b/c my NICs are =
wireless...

So I have to use the TAP driver with a proxy server.

I've configured the windows side with a static IP address of 10.10.10.1, =
and the linux side with a static IP of 10.10.10.2. FreeProxy does HTTP =
proxying on 8080, and SOCKS proxying on 1080.

Now my problem is: after some time, or perhaps rather after some amount =
of traffic, the network dies. Not the connections that run over the TAP =
driver, they seem to perhaps work, but all external networking dies. My =
web-browser in windows no longer manages to load any page. No amount of =
starting/stopping FreeProxy makes any difference.
But as soon as I stop coLinux, my networking is alive again.

When I restart coLinux I usually still have a working network, although =
it seems not always. At which point I perhaps have to reboot...


Does anyone else have similar problems?


regards,

--Tim