Hi guys,

I have a workstation running Fedora Core 2 (Kernel 2.6.5-1.358smp). About two days ago I tried to ssh and ping it but i got no response, which made me this computer's
system crashed or was having some kind of problem.

I went to the office where this computer is and noticed it was working fine! ... I was able to
connect to other computers in the network but when i executed the ifconfig command, I
realized that this computer was uysing a dhcp address instead its static ip address.

As far as I now, nobody but only the user (which doesn't have root access) has been using
that computer. I took a look on the network configuration files and they weren't changed at
all. I restarted the network service, which meant the machine was again using its static ip
address...but today at about 10:30 AM...the ip address got switched to dhcp again. I have to say that this computer was working fine for the past 2(more or less) months.

Looking at the messages file i found this entry:

10:34:59 <machine name> kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of cde1.

Any comments?

Thx a lot in advance.

PD1: the modules loaded on this machine are detailed on the list below
###############################################################
Module Size Used by
snd_pcm_oss 45220 0
nfs 152124 0
snd_via82xx 23712 1
snd_mpu401_uart 9088 1 snd_via82xx
snd_mixer_oss 17792 3 snd_pcm_oss
snd_ens1371 22112 3
snd_rawmidi 21792 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device 10120 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm 76420 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ens1371
snd_page_alloc 12036 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_timer 22404 1 snd_pcm
snd_ac97_codec 54916 2 snd_via82xx,snd_ens1371
snd 43876 14 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm ,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec
gameport 7424 2 snd_via82xx,snd_ens1371
soundcore 10336 3 snd
nfsd 164128 9
exportfs 8448 1 nfsd
lockd 52552 3 nfs,nfsd
ipv6 214624 20
parport_pc 23616 1
lp 12300 0
parport 34632 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 15488 2
rfcomm 32280 0
l2cap 21504 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 39780 4 rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 110280 20 nfs,nfsd,lockd
tulip 41376 0
ipt_REJECT 8704 1
ipt_state 5504 3
ip_conntrack 30348 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 6016 1
ip_tables 18048 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
floppy 52336 0
sg 32288 0
microcode 10400 0
st 35484 0
dm_mod 37536 0
uhci_hcd 28188 0
sym53c8xx 68640 0
scsi_transport_spi 13824 1 sym53c8xx
sd_mod 20352 0
scsi_mod 97224 5 sg,st,sym53c8xx,scsi_transport_spi,sd_mod
###############################################################

PD2: lspci gives the following info about the network card:
###############################################################
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
###############################################################

that should not be happening.. try denying all acess (system acess.. user acess.. all acess) to the program dhcpcd and that might solve your problem. as to what is causeing it.. no idea.. but that might solve the problem.