well here goes, this has been bugging me for quite some time. i've been having this problem in slackware for a few days now, my cable modem shuts off sometimes and it's set to a static ip(which i dont understand), but when it shuts off and goes back online, i cant get back online with linux, i can in windows tho, but i've tried doing "ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 up" and nothing happens, so it makes me reboot the damn box, is there a program or a script i can use so i wont have to reboot the box? if so let me know, thanks a lot.