jtd wrote: > On Wednesday 07 May 2008 08:54 pm, Rony wrote: > > >> Hi Dinesh and everyone. I visited the place again and the problem >> is with the Debian distro as it was re-loaded again the last time ( >> With no mirrors selected ). What happens is that the system has a >> problem with http connections. >> This is a serious bug with Etch and I will look it up in the bug >> reports. If it does not exist, I will report it. >> > > Etch works without a problem in gui as well as console mode. Anyway, > ui has nothing to do with networking. But using an adsl modem with a > usb and ethernet connection simultaneously on two different comps > with two different OSs is "innovative" ;-) and would require some > testing. > I saw such a setup for the first time and was wondering how this simply works. It was the old D-Link ADSL where both eth and usb have the same ip address of 1. So how does the router know where to send packets back after a response to a query. My guess is that it sends them to both machines and the machines then decide to use the packets based on the recipient MAC address placed inside the tcp/ip layer.
> Ping an internet ip. note the time to first response. Ping the same > with a name and note the time to first response. If the time is > longer then your innovative setup is screwing DNS queries. > Revert to a vanilla setup and test. > I am using Etch myself so I was surprised at this problem. Dig was working instantly. Same with pinging google's ips. Ftp downloads in terminal took place in a jiffy. It was the http connections that failed. I feel it was some security policy bug that prevented http. The same dual machine setup works perfectly with Kubuntu 8.04. Later I even installed extra packages and codecs from the net. - Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
