sorry i came late whats the real problem?? -tweek On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 22:15, Mark Knecht wrote: > 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 > >
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