Vern wrote:
> Well here's maybe an easy one for you gurus to answer, I have thesame
> internet hookup from Mandrake 7.0 and Win98, but the mdkconnect gets
> "bumped" offline after 10-15 min. whether I'm browsingdownloading or
> getting email/newsgroups. Any clues? What tweaksam I missing? MTU's?
> port speed? don't know where to find outabout the UART's and buffers
> in Linux yet, so I don't know. I can stayhooked up to the same ISP's
> for hours with Win98, I do know that theyall use Win NT servers (it
> says so right in the details). This may be oldstuff, but I haven't
> run across it yet.Thanks in advance.Vern
Find a different ISP. This is a little NetBIOS check "to prevent IP
spoofing" that Microsoft cheerfully supplies to brain damaged ISPs. 15
minutes is the shortest interval I have heard of, but the symptoms are
the same for cable modems and even some dsl's. Or contact your ISP and
see if you can find someone competent to disable this "feature" for
you. If they all have their MCSE's from the back of a matchbook,
probably they will be unable to help you.
Civileme
