Nathan, Thanks very much for the continued help. This is becoming one of the most bizarre networking issues I've ever run into.
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 18:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <SNIP> > > The next thing I would do if I were dealing with this is to run a > network analyzer. The "ethereal" tool, which is available in an ebuild, > is excellent. Of course, if your background doesn't include some > understanding of networks and protocols, there's a nasty learning curve. Yes, I'm afraid of that. I'll may look into it, based on what you or other might say about the next set of data. > > No, it doesn't make sense and it won't until the problem is identified > and explained - then it'll turn out to be some obvious, d'oh! sort of > thing :-). What you're describing doesn't match anything I've ever seen > in 7 years of using Linux... I'm sure that's why I (and many others) > can't come forward with an explanation based on what you've told us. OK, this is where it gets really bizarre. I run a small home recording studio. I have 3 PCs - all dual boot - but basically I run one XP machine, one Gentoo machine, and one dual-boot with Redhat 9 and Win ME. Additionally my wife's machine is Win ME. Guess what? The Redhat machine, completely turned off all day, fails EXACTLY the same way the Gentoo box fails going to Yahoo. Dead on identical. The Yahoo page hangs at the same place and looks the same. I Will say from looking at the page's html code there are JAva calls. That makes me worried under Linux. I then go to the page where I was trying to download some source code earlier today. ( http://plugin.org.uk/meterbridge ) I try to download the source code. It goes excessively slow also. However, I boot that same last machine into Win ME, go to the same web page, and the download is fast. My wife's machine is fast, as is the XP machine. All on the same page. Even emerge sync won't run right now. It just goes slow, times out and quits. Watching gkrellm, it actually appears like the Gentoo box isn't even trying. There are basically no Ethernet transaction requests happening, at least graphically. I think now that it must be this LinkSys firewall somehow not responding well to whatever Linux does on the network. What else could account for 3 windows boxes working just fine, and 2 Linux boxes, and different distributions, to fail?!?!? I'm trying now to downgrade the LinkSys firmware, but the little box is not responding nicely. So much for a leisurely Saturday. ;-) Thanks for the instructions on setting up dhcp. That will probably be important sometime later this evening. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
